MV Empire, which is a Baltic Max feeder from the PW-1400 series, has been part of the JR Shipping fleet since 2009.
Built by the German Peene Werft shipyard, the vessel has room for 1,440 20-feet (TEU) containers, including 316 refrigerator containers. Thanks to her high ice class, the vessel can be deployed by container shipping lines operating in the Baltic waters throughout the year. When she was designed, the maximum permissible draught for sailing through the Kiel Canal and calling at the Baltic ports was taken into account.
