Earth-class container ship

The Earth class is a series of six container ships built for the shipping company Zodiac Maritime and chartered to the carrier HMM for a period of twelve years. All six were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea and delivered during 2016, beginning with Hyundai Earth in January of that year and followed by Hyundai Mars, Hyundai Jupiter, Hyundai Saturn, Hyundai Neptune and Hyundai Pluto. Each ship has a maximum theoretical capacity of 10,077 twenty-foot equivalent units, a gross tonnage of 110,632, a length of 324 metres and a beam of 48.4 metres. The ship list records that between 2017 and 2020 three of them sailed under MSC names and three under Maersk names before returning to the Hyundai names, and it shows all six in service.