Rio De Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro is a container ship owned by A.P. Moller Singapore Pte. Ltd. and operated by Maersk Line AS. The long ship was built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea in 2008. Originally owned by Rio de Janeiro GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary of Hamburg Süd, she has had two owners and been registered under two flags. The vessel is one of three ships of the Rio class built for Hamburg Süd by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in 2008. Construction Rio de Janeiro had its keel laid down on 4 February 2008 at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea. Its hull has an overall length of . In terms of width, the ship has a beam of . The height from the top of the keel to the main deck, called the moulded depth, is . The ship's container-carrying capacity of (5,905 20-foot shipping containers) places it in the range of a Post-Panamax container ship. The ship's gross tonnage, a measure of the volume of all its enclosed spaces, is 73,899. Its net tonnage, which measures the volume of the cargo spaces, is 39,673. Its total carrying capacity in terms of weight, is .