Top 10 Largest Container Ships in the World
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| Top 10 Largest Container Ships in the World |
Until 1956, Malcolm McLean became the "father" of the container ship - a huge turning point in the freight industry. Since then, the ambitious battle to own the world's largest container ship began with giant names: Maersk, CMA CGM, MSC, CSCL, OOCL, ...
Today, the creation of "giant" to transport containers is no longer a big obstacle when their capacity can reach more than 15,000 TEUs and payloads up to 200,000 tons, creating favorable conditions for the global supply chain. growing demand across oceans and continents.
So now, which container ships are in the top 10 largest ships in the world, with KnowInsiders.com to take a look through the following article!
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1. Prelude FLNG
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| Prelude FLNG |
Number one on this list is Prelude FLNG. This is the largest ship in the world with a length of 488 meters. People once compared this ship with the Empire State Building - one of the tallest buildings in the world. In 2003, it was put into use in Korea.
According to experts, the FLNG Prelude weighs about 600,000 tons, which is terrible, its weight is much heavier than the world's largest aircraft carrier.
2. Seawise Giant
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| Seawise Giant |
Second place is for ships with a length of up to 445 meters. Seawise Giant is known by various names such as Oppama, Jahre Viking, knock Nevis and Happy Giant. According to many studies, it is reported that the Seawise Giant was built in 1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.
During the Iran-Iraq war, this ship was severely damaged, resulting in it lying deep on the ocean floor. But then they recovered the wreckage and revived it. The ship was repaired, restored and reused, but in December 2009 it once again became a pile of scrap.
3. HMM Algeciras
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| HMM Algeciras |
The HMM Algeciras, like the Ever Ace, was constructed in South Korea. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering built her.
The HMM Algeciras is 61.0 meters (200.1 feet) broad and 399.9 meters (1,312 feet) long, both of which are identical to the Ever Ace. Her draught of 16.5 meters (54 feet 3 inches) is also a tad smaller than the Ever Ace.
HMM Algeciras is a Panama-flag ship owned by the South Korean maritime firm HMM. Its TEU capacity is only 28 TEUs less than that of the Ever Ace, with 23,964 TEUs. The total gross tonnage is 228,283 gross tons.
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4. HMM Oslo
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| HMM Oslo |
HMM Oslo, along with the ships HMM Rotterdam, HMM Stockholm, HMM Southampton and HMM St Petersburg, are part of the 12-Algeciras class container ships.
HMM Oslo has less capacity than HMM Algeciras 144 ΤEU. Built by SHI, it will be added to HMM's fleet in 2020.
The last of HMM's 12 24,000TEU container ships, HMM St Petersburg, departed China's Yantian Port in September 2020. During its maiden voyage, HMM St Petersburg loaded up to 19,529TEU of incoming cargo. Europe.
All of the above-mentioned HMMs are essentially equipped with a dust collection system in accordance with the IMO 2020 environmental regulations, including an optimized hull design and high-performance engines.
5. Ever Ace
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The Ever Ace was built in South Korea by Samsung Heavy Industries, but it now belongs to the Taiwanese business Evergreen Marine and flies the Panamanian flag. The ship set sail from the Chinese port of Qingdao on July 29, 2001, on her first trip. The ship subsequently proceeded to the port of Taipei in Taiwan, then to Yantian in China, before returning to Europe and concluding her trip in the Port of Rotterdam.
Because to its TEU capacity of 23,992 TEUs, this ship is regarded the largest container vessel. But, as of today, this vessel has not been loaded to its maximum capacity. However, the Ever Ace was loaded with 21,710 TEUs in August 2021, the largest single-ship TEU load ever recorded.
6. MSC Gulsun
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| MSC Gulsun |
MSC Gulsun, the first of the Gulsun-class ships, was built in 2019 at the SHI Geoje shipyard in South Korea. The boxship initially arrived in Europe in August of last year. It has the same carrying capacity as its sisters MSC Samar, MSC Mia, MSC Febe, MSC Leni, and MSC Ambra, which is 23,756 TEU.
The Gulsun class also includes ten container ships built by DSME, with MSC Mina, MSC Isabella, MSC Arina, and MSC Sixin having a capacity of 100 TEU less than the aforementioned Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCV).
7. CMA CGM Vasco De Gama
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| CMA CGM Vasco De Gama |
According to the original plan, the name of the container ship was named after the American politician - Benjamin Franklin. However, the deploying organization decided to act on choosing a shorter name for this long-haul vessel following the Marco Polo theme of "curious courtesy". Thrusted by a single shaft, propeller, the Vasco De Gama has a displacement of up to 22.9 knots.
In addition, carrying 17,859 TEUs with a tonnage of 178,228 tons, the ship belongs to the top 9 international ships recently registered in London - UK.
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8. Pierre Guillaumat
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| Pierre Guillaumat |
Another largest oil tanker in the world is the Pierre Guillaumat. This was originally an oil tanker and was named after a French politician - Pierre Guillaumat, he was also the founder of the Elf Aquitaine oil industry.
It is estimated that this ship weighing up to 555,000 tons and about 414.22 meters long was built in 1977 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Nationale de Navigation. It is a pity that it served humanity for a while and then became a pile of scrap.
9. CMA CGM Jacques Saadé
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| CMA CGM Jacques Saadé |
CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, named after the French Group's Founder President, is the world's first 23,000 TEU container ship to be powered by liquefied natural gas.
The ship was set down in July 2018 at the China State Shipbuilding Company (CSSC) shipyard in Shanghai, and will begin service two years later, in September 2020, when it joins the France Asia Line 1 (FAL1) service, one of the world's longest maritime routes linking Asia to Northern Europe.
10. OOCL Hong Kong
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| OOCL Hong Kong |
The Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) Hong Kong is the lead container ship of the G-class ships built for the maritime firm Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL). OOCL Hong Kong was the world's biggest container ship when it was launched on December 31, 2016. At the same time, she was the first container vessel to exceed the 21,000 TEU container volume capacity milestone.
OOCL Hong Kong, built by Samsung Heavy Industries, is based in the Port of Hong Kong and flies the country's flag.
OOCL Hong Kong has a capacity of 21,413 TEUs and a total weight of 210,890 gross tons. Her beam width is 58.8 meters wide, her total length is 399.9 meters long, and her draught depth is 16.0 meters deep.
Conclusion
This is a list of the 10 largest ships in the world, looking at it, do you admire the creativity and great dexterity of humans? Although some have become scrap, its name still remains to this day. Yes, those are the largest and most majestic ships in the world that mankind has created.
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