P&O Nedlloyd BV, one of the world’s leading providers of point-to-point container shipping services, operates a modern fleet of more than 150 containerships.

P&O Nedlloyd Southampton is the first of a series of four 6690 TEU fully-cellular Post-Panamax containerships which were delivered in 1998 by Japanese shipbuilder Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd.

Wärtsilä solution
P&O Nedlloyd Southampton and her three sister ships are propelled by a Sulzer 12RTA96C engine developing 65,880 kW at 100 rpm. This is the first 12-cylinder RTA96C engine to have entered service.

Before this class of containerships, P&O Nedlloyd and its predecessor companies had already taken delivery of many vessels powered by Sulzer low-speed engines. To date, the P&O Nedlloyd group has 21 ships in service or on order with Sulzer RTA96C engines, of which eight are of the RT-flex type with common-rail fuel injection.