MSC Levina III

 The container ship MSC Levina III arrived this morning, July 11, on the Canada Expresss service from Montreal for London, Antwerp and Le Havre. The ship will take on cargo here that could not be loaded in Montreal due to draft restrictions on the St.Lawrence River.

The much traveled ship is working on its seventh name, having previously sailed for all the major container lines at one time or another over its 18 year career (so far).

Built in 2006 by Hyundai Mipo, Ulsan, it is a 28,616 gt, 39,359 dwt ship with a capacity of 2824 TEU. It was originally named Santa Balbina, presumably for charter to Hamburg Süd, but was almost immediately reanmed Maersk Jackson. It carried that name until 2011 when it reverted to Santa Balbina. From 2014 to 2018 it was named Satie then CMA CGM Pointe du Diamant in 2018 and again Satie in 2019. As of June 1 of this year it became MSC Levina III. Up until that time it appears to have been owned by Claus-Peter Offen interests of Germany.

The Roman numeral "III" in the ship's name represents the ship's capacity class, which is 2000 to 3000 TEU. With so many ships in the MSC fleet, thue use of the Roman numeral makes it easy to know the ship's size at a glance. The company's container fleet now exceeds 800 ships with a capacity in excess of 5.5 mn TEU, representing nearly 20% of the world's container capacity.

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