Maersk Edinburgh Comes to Baltimore November 8, 2020

This 366x48m (1201x157ft) Denmark flagged container ship was built in 2010 by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea and operated by Maersk Line according to schippertje.be which also indicates she has a capacity of 13,630 TEU.

Who owns this ship is a bit of a mystery. She was born as the Pearl Rickmers then changed to her current name the same year. Both schippertje.be and BalticShipping.com list Polaris Shipmanagement as her owner, but the site doesn’t have this ship listed in the fleet list.

schippertje.be seems to imply that Polaris Shipmanagement is part of the Rickmers Group which according to this JOC.com article went bankrupt in 2017.

According to this Wikipedia article this ship is the namesake of the Maersk Edinburgh class container ship of which 13 were built and 8 are currently operated by Maersk. This class of ship was designed for “slow steaming”, or operating less than full speed in order to save on fuel expenses.

This Maryland Port Administration Press Release indicates she set a new record for the most container moves from one ship during her August 2020 visit with 5,536 container moves performed.

This 2011 video shows her entering the river of Elbe in Germany the second year of her career. This interesting 2016 video shows her arriving at the Colombian port of Buenaventura and discusses the challenges they faced with the arrival of such a large ship.

This 2016 video by Maersk shows her at the Panama Canal. Another video by Maersk the same year shows a scale model of this ship being used to train for navigating the Panama Canal.

In 2017 friend of Baltimore Shipspotting, Shipping TV produced this video of her departing from Felixstowe, UK.

In my 14 minute video below she can be seen arriving on a foggy morning on the Patapsco River as she makes her way to Baltimore, Maryland. Tugs Gramma Lee T Moran and Lynne Moran can be seen moving into position to lend assistance. Pilot boat Baltimore can be seen alongside. Tug Bridget McAllister can be briefly seen from astern. After passing under the Key Bridge tug Bridget McAllister can be seen helping to slow the ship. At the end of the video is a timelapse showing container movements.

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