Daniela-class container ship

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).^[1]

MSC Beatrice in the port of Rotterdam
Class overview
Builders	Samsung Heavy Industries
Operators	Mediterranean Shipping Company
In service	2008–present
Planned	8
Completed	8
Active	8
General characteristics
Type	Container ship
Tonnage	151,559 GT
Length	366.1 m (1,201 ft 1 in)
Beam	51.2 m (168 ft 0 in)
Draught	15.6 m (51 ft 2 in)
Capacity	13,798 TEU

2017 MSC Daniela fire

On 4 April 2017 a fire broke out in one of the containers onboard of MSC Daniela while the ship was on route from Singapore to the Suez Canal.^[2] After the fire was put out the remaining containers were offloaded in the port of Colombo. ^[3] 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. ^[4]

List of ships

Ship	Yard number	IMO number	Delivery	Status	ref
MSC Daniela	1708	9399002	15 December 2008	In service	[5]
MSC Beatrice	1709	9399014	4 March 2009	In service	[6]
MSC Kalina	1710	9399026	15 June 2009	In service	[7]
MSC Bettina	1711	9399038	8 July 2010	In service	[8]
MSC Irene	1712	9399040	8 July 2010	In service	[9]
MSC Emanuela	1713	9399052	16 September 2010	In service	[10]
MSC Eva	1714	9401130	16 September 2010	In service	[11]
MSC Gaia	1715	9401142	11 October 2010	In service	[12]