{"id":19079,"date":"2013-02-19T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19079"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:19:59","slug":"container-ships-embiggen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/container-ships-embiggen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Container ships embiggen again"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC News<\/em><\/a> looks at the soon-to-be-launched Triple-E container ships:<\/p>\n

What is blue, a quarter of a mile long, and taller than London’s Olympic stadium?<\/p>\n

The answer — this year’s new class of container ship, the Triple E. When it goes into service this June, it will be the largest vessel ploughing the sea.<\/p>\n

Each will contain as much steel as eight Eiffel Towers and have a capacity equivalent to 18,000 20-foot containers (TEU).<\/p>\n

If those containers were placed in Times Square in New York, they would rise above billboards, streetlights and some buildings.<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way, they would fill more than 30 trains, each a mile long and stacked two containers high. Inside those containers, you could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans. <\/p>\n

The Triple E will not be the largest ship ever built. That accolade goes to an “ultra-large crude carrier” (ULCC) built in the 1970s, but all supertankers more than 400m (440 yards) long were scrapped years ago, some after less than a decade of service. Only a couple of shorter ULCCs are still in use. But giant container ships are still being built in large numbers — and they are still growing.<\/p>\n

It’s 25 years since the biggest became too wide for the Panama Canal. These first “post-Panamax” ships, carrying 4,300 TEU, had roughly quarter of the capacity of the current record holder — the 16,020 TEU Marco Polo<\/em>, launched in November by CMA CGM.<\/p>\n

In the shipping industry there is already talk of a class of ship that would run aground in the Suez canal, but would just pass through another bottleneck of international trade — the Strait of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia. The “Malaccamax” would carry 30,000 containers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Comparison of bounding box of Chinamax with some other ship sizes in isometric view. (Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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