WORLD'S LARGEST CARGO SHIP

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WORLD'S LARGEST CARGO SHIP

How Wal Mart gets all its stuff from China. Get a load of this ship!
15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew size for a
ship longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a complement of 5,000
men and officers.

Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it was NOT
designed for the Panama or Suez Canal. It is strictly transpacific.
Check out the cruise speed, 31 knots means the goods arrive 4 days
before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on a
China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive
carrying perishable goods.

This ship was built in three, perhaps as many as five sections. The
sections floated together and then welded. The ship is named Emma
Maersk. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has
11 crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.

Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP) Cruise
Speed - 31 knots, Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3
container)
Crew - 13 people First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006 Construction cost - US
$145,000,000+
Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance
and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year .

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  Science & Technology

[FINGPINKPANTHER]

Chuck Norris plays with this ship in his bath tub.

[Bigmell73]

i just bought one of those last week horbbile on gas

[vidgaizzer]

How many gallons of paint did it take to paint that thing

[simplysmartification]

31 knots? Have a laugh! She'll probably max out @25ish knots, that's 28mph. The new tripleE class are microscopically bigger but carry 3000 more containers. The way forward is slow steaming. @18 knots you save a ton of fuel. For every extra knot of speed you have to nearly cube the input power at high speed. She'll have a medium speed diesel coupled through a gearbox to one propeller shaft. I know these things, I am a Marine Engineer.

[th33ninja]

the ship is an amazing 1,300 feet long

[jason33guy]

I haul containers into and out or Georgia ports authority in Savannah, ga. Yes, maersk comes to north America. As do 50 other ship lines. They do not leave our ports empty. They arrive loaded with imports and depart loaded with exports. Only way ship lines can make money is for vessels to always be loaded....

[MsZeitgeist85]

Big enough to carry America's trade defict with China. 

[tkunkel4395]

Oh my gosh! Look at the video response picture. Maybe the US killed him for 2 reasons. 1. He hit the twin towers. 2. He is butt ugly! I know this doesn't fit with my comment, but cool video! lol XD

[Rasmus as]

Danish, that's right.

[dave0886]

Great. Now the pirates can simplify their attacks to just one big-ass blue boat instead of hijacking several smaller ones. lol

[recommendme]

i have one too.. the oil change takes forever... but it does carry all my cargo!

[Kyle Running]

got one for my birthday already in the water. Now i need a trailer.