Hong Kong-headquartered Seaspan Corporation has taken delivery of a 14,000TEU container vessel, the YM Warmth.

The new vessel, which was built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, is Seaspan's sixth 14,000TEU SAVER design boxship, and the eighth newbuilding delivery in 2015.

The YM Warmth will commence a ten-year, fixed-rate time charter with the Taiwanese carrier Yang Ming Marine Transport, which can be extended for up to additional two years.

The ship is the sixth of a total of eight 14,000TEU SAVER design vessels to be chartered by Seaspan to Yang Ming.