The Daniela class is a series of eight container ships operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company and built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
2017 MSC Daniela fire On 4 April 2017 a fire broke out in one of the containers onboard of while the ship was on route from Singapore to the Suez Canal. After the fire was put out the remaining containers were offloaded in the port of Colombo. On 22 May she arrived in Shanghai for repairs that were initially expected to only take around three weeks. Eventually it would be almost eleven weeks before she could enter into service again, four months after the initial fire broke out.
List of ships ShipYard numberIMO numberDeliveryStatusrefMSC Daniela1708939900215 December 2008In serviceMSC Beatrice170993990144 March 2009In serviceMSC Kalina1710939902615 June 2009In serviceMSC Bettina171193990388 July 2010In serviceMSC Irene171293990408 July 2010In serviceMSC Emanuela1713939905216 September 2010In serviceMSC Eva1714940113016 September 2010In serviceMSC Gaia1715940114211 October 2010In service
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