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Mary Maersk sets new record: 17.603 TEU containers, but few ports can receive her
A record has been set with a Triple-E vessel carrying the highest ever number of containers between Europe and Asia. Mary Maersk left Algeciras, Spain, on its eastward journey bound for Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia with no less than 17,603 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), the highest number ever loaded on a vessel. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis article made me think of the boasts of Titanic's makers before her fateful maiden voyage.... and if it's tipped over in a storm it could be a record number of containers dropped off a single vessel, too!
Aug 27th, 2014 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Reminds me of “Too big to fail”
Aug 27th, 2014 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0This also means less frequency to export items on time.
@ 2 Klingon
Aug 27th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This ship will never come to TDC, your docks are incapable of handling the containers even Algeciras has had to upgraded four existing cranes and deploy four new Triple-E cranes.
These ships are impressive wherever you view them but right alongside the docked ship is the best.
Of course, the only time they will be fully loaded is when they bring the Chinese crap back to the west.
Anyone explain the reasoning of having a ship so big it can not even dock!
Aug 27th, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't make sense.
@4
Aug 27th, 2014 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The new London Gateway can handle Triple - E.
@3
“Of course, the only time they will be fully loaded is when they bring the Chinese crap back to the west.”
Not necessarily. 17,000 containers @ 30 + per container .... That's over half a million illegal immigrants in one delivery.
Great, but where else?
Aug 27th, 2014 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah, horses for courses.
Explains it and shows where the real money is.
They should have christened her Piratemagnet.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good to see that Spain has invested wisely!!
Aug 27th, 2014 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Arghhh!
Aug 27th, 2014 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now that would be for the taking.
Bit like them there Dons bullion ships?
Matey!
Whoops, my culture got the better of me there.
Alsy
Aug 27th, 2014 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I've had a look for that claim, Harland and Wolff never advertised Titanic as unsinkable. the nearest I can come to find out is that the president of White Star Line claimed this.
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/unsinkable.htm
@10 - You're probably right, but no matter the source, I think it was a widely held perception in the hype of the day.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing built by man can withstand the forces of nature.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not yet anyway.
Yes it was indeed.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I do have a perception that 'Wall Sided Ships' like Cunard's Queen Mary. One severe storm and the vessel founders. Bigger doesn't always mean better.
Oh yes, lots of future problems with a ship that size ...
Aug 27th, 2014 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mary Maersk is one of presently 10 (ten) Maersk Triple E class container ships in service, the first one since 5 July 2013, i.e. more than a year, owned by Maersk, the largest and most successful container carrier in the world.
Luckily some of you are about to send Maersk a letter, showing your superior knowledge by outlining all the horrors they can expect :-D
“Maersk brings world's largest ship into service”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10162144/Maersk-brings-worlds-largest-ship-into-service.html
Maersk use Southampton Container Terminal which already accommodates the new Triple E Class ships.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.dpworldsouthampton.com/why-southampton/new-deep-water-berth/
Clearing the bridge - just - at low tide
Aug 27th, 2014 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://a.bimg.dk/node-images/735/6/1152x-u/6735448-.jpg
Suitable ports include Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Qingdao, Yantian, Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, Singapore and Colombo in Asia, and Rotterdam, Gothenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Southampton, Felixstowe, Gdańsk, Antwerp and Algeciras in Europe.
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