MSC Roma

 The Mediterranean Shipping Company's INDUSA service (Northwest India to the USA East Coast) is one of four regularly scheduled routes that call in the Port of Halifax. Another two services that run to Montreal often stop in Halifax to adjust draft to and from the St.Lawrence River.

Today (September 25) brought a first time caller on the INDUSA route, the MSC Roma. The Samsung Geoje shipyard delivered the ship in 2006 and it is listed at 107,849 gt, 110,633 dwt with a capacity of 9,178 TEU (including 700 reefers.)

 

 

Ships on the INDUSA run have varied in size from 6700 TEU to 9400 TEU, but most have been in the 8000 to 8500 TEU range. However few ships have remained on the run for long, so we have seen quite a variety.

 

On this eastbound voyage from Savannah and Baltimore,  the ship is giving its destination as Iskenderun, Turkey. That may be due to "crew indifference" or it is unscheduled as the MSC published schedule shows its next regular call to be King Abdullah port then Mumbai, Nava Sheva and Colombo before heading back west.

With a capacity of just under 10,000 TEU the ship is not an "Ultra" size vessel. That size is often the cut off for single superstructure aft. Some ships of this size and most larger ships have the split superstructure with bridge and accommodation well forward.

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