SHIP
– her size is bemusing and on water it is treat to
watch. They have been growing bigger and speed ever increasing with modern
technology. Often, you could see photos
on web stating one to be the biggest ship ever.
There are various types of vessels – tankers, bulkers, container ships,
car carriers and the like and each category could have its biggest.
In
Dec 2008, i had circulated something on ‘MSC Daniela’ being extraordinary not only in terms of size, but
also in its design aspects- the biggest
containership ever classed by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) at that time.
It was touted to be with 14000 TEU capacity. In Nov 2012, CMA CGM Marco Polo had the
unofficial title. It can hold 16,020 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit
containers) superceding the previous largest Emma Mærsk and her seven sisters
of the Mærsk E-class.
CMA CGM, founded
and led by Jacques R. Saadé is the world’s third largest and France’s top
container shipping company. Its 445 vessels call more than 400 ports in the
world, on all 5 continents. In 2014, over 12.2 million TEUs (twenty-foot
equivalent units) were carried. Latest
of the CMA CGM fleet’s vessels, the CMA CGM KERGUELEN was delivered on March
31st. She is, with her 398 meters length and 17,722 twenty-foot equivalent
containers capacity, the Group’s largest vessel. She is the first of a 6
vessels of the same size series that will enter the fleet in 2015 and join the
460 vessels of the Group.
At 17,722
TEUs capacity it certainly is much bigger than all the earlier vessels and it
is equipped with state of the art environmental technologies. CMA CGM Group, recently announced taking delivery of CMA CGM KERGUELEN with impressive
dimensions. With a length of 1,305 ft.
(398m) and a width of 177 ft. (54m), the CMA CGM KERGUELEN is gigantic.
Its 17,722 TEU containers aligned would
cover the distance between London and Southampton. It is longer than the Empire
State Building, wider than an olympic pool, and its thrust is equivalent to the
one of 10 A380 Airbus reactors. The
vessel was christened at Haropa, Port of Le Havre. As the largest container
port for the external trade of France, HAROPA enjoys recognized expertise by
shipping companies and main alliances. The container traffic, rising by 2% in
2014, is in the heart of the strategic project of HAROPA, whose target is to
reach 4.8 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent) by 2020.
Delivered in March
2015 by the shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries, the containership will be
positioned departing from Le Havre on the FAL1 (French Asia Line), the
emblematic service of the company which connects Europe to Asia. This line
provides the customers of the group with a weekly connection on fixed day
between HAROPA and Central and South China (main exporting zones in the
country). The commercial offer of CMA CGM provides connection with 275 ports in
the world via HAROPA.
CMA CGM Kerguelen,
the largest British registered vessel arrived this week, in purpose-built 500m deep water berth, SCT 5,
at Southampton as part of its maiden
voyage. Southampton is its first and only UK stop on
its maiden voyage. It has the capacity
to transport almost 200,000 tonnes of goods and its engine generates 14
megawatts of power, the equivalent of a city of 16,000 residents or 10
windmills.
The
ship is named after the 18th Century French navigator Yves Joseph de Kerguelen
de Trémarec. The ship is longer than four football pitches,
or five-and-a-half A380 Airbus planes; If all the containers it could carry
were placed end to end they would stretch for 67 miles (109km). Yet, this is not
the biggest one as, as of January the largest container ship in the world is ‘MSC
Oscar’, which is a few metres shorter than the Kerguelen but can carry 19,224
standard containers.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
13th May
2015.
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