Big ship makes appearance at Port of Tacoma in maiden voyage to North American port
If you happen to be in viewing distance of the Port of Tacoma the next few days, you may catch sight of a brand-new, huge vessel.
The YM Triumph arrived to Husky Terminal on Thursday in its first time crossing the Pacific on its maiden voyage to a North American port since entering service in July.
It is the largest ship to call at Husky Terminal, according to the port, but not the biggest to arrive at the port in general.
The Thalassa Axia (November 2018) and Thalassa Avra (spring 2020), which called at Pierce County Terminal, were slightly bigger at 14,000-TEU.
Husky Terminal recently received a major pier reconfiguration.
“Completed in April 2018, the $266 million project extended the terminal into the Blair Waterway to create a single 2,960-foot-long pier, allowing two ultra-large container vessels to dock simultaneously. Husky Terminal also features eight state-of-the-art, super-post-Panamax cranes with an outreach of 24 containers and a 165-foot lift height,” according to the port.
YM Triumph is Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation’s newest 11,000 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) vessel. According to the port, the vessel is 1,090 feet long and 158 feet wide, with “nominal capacity of 12,690 TEUs and is equipped with 1,000 plugs for refrigerated containers.”
The vessel is scheduled to leave Monday at 4 a.m.
Its sister ship, YM Truth, is scheduled to arrive in Tacoma next month.
The ship’s arrival came one day after additional cranes from Seattle began their journeys to the Tacoma port.
