Recently, CSSC Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding delivered the MAERSK CAPE COAST, the first vessel in Maersk’s latest retrofit series, ahead of schedule to the owner after completing a series of high-tech green retrofitting projects. Concurrently, the Maersk Victoria also successfully underwent routine repairs at Beihai Shipbuilding and returned to service on schedule.
The MAERSK CAPE COAST measures 249.12 meters in length, 37.4 meters in beam and 22.1 meters in draft, with a capacity to carry 4,496 standard containers. This retrofit includes core green upgrade projects such as scrubber installation, propeller replacement, fairing installation, and shore power system conversion.
To date, Beihai Shipbuilding has completed the repair and conversion of 186 vessels for Maersk, including 121 high-tech conversions. The successful delivery of the “MAERSK CAPE COAST” not only demonstrates Beihai Shipbuilding’s strength in green ship conversion but also marks a significant achievement in deepening mutual trust and collaborative progress with leading international shipowners. Maersk fully affirmed the project’s professional management, technical responsiveness, and completion quality, laying a solid foundation for future cooperation on a series of vessels.
In the future, Beihai Shipbuilding will continue to strengthen its technological accumulation and engineering practice in areas such as environmental protection and energy conservation, energy substitution and efficiency improvement and new energy applications. It will also deepen its strategic cooperation with leading customers such as Maersk, and provide reliable green upgrade solutions for vessels to global customers with higher standards of quality control, more advanced process technologies and more efficient project management, so as to jointly promote the sustainable and high-quality development of the shipping industry.