With the Americo Vespucio the Hamburg Sud subsidiary Alianca christened the third of four identical 3,800 TEU container ships for its cabotage fleet in Pecem (Brazil). The Naming Ceremony was held as part of a customer event at the port of Pecem. The Sponsor of the ship is Consuelo Dias Branco, Member of the Senior Management of Moinho Dias Branco, one of Alianca's customers.

Before the Americo Vespucio Alianca had already held naming ceremonies for two ships in the Explorer series: for the Sebastiao Caboto (in May 2013) and for the Fernao de Magalhaes (in September 2013). This newbuild series allows Alianca to progress with the modernisation of its cabotage fleet. The Americo Vespucio is named after the explorer Americo Vespucci, who explored large parts of the East coast of South America during his travels in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Like the first two newbuilds, the Americo Vespucio was also built at the Shanghai Shipyard Co., Ltd. and was delivered on 23 August 2013. After completion of import formalities the ship was loaded with the first containers for the Aliança cabotage service on 14 October in Manaus. With each ship having a slot capacity of 3,800 TEU, the ships of the Explorer series have almost twice the number of container capacity as the previous Alianca ships employed on this service. The Naming Ceremony for the Pedro Álvares Cabral will take place at the start of next year in Brazil.