This weeks Ship Photo of the Week is brought to us via PortStrategy.com (For high resolution image, CLICK HERE).
In late May, the 14,000-teu MSC Daniela became the largest container ship to have ever left the port of Rotterdam fully laden – a European record.
The ship was handled at the ECT Delta Terminal, the largest container-handling facility in Rotterdam. In recent years, ECT has invested heavily in the efficient handling of mega ships.
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Tags: · Container Ship, container_ship, msc daniela, Photo, Rotterdam, world largest ships
Never Sea Land brings us the largest engine ever built:
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel ship engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan’s Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.
It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.
The cylinder bore is just under 38″ and the stroke is just over 98″.
The engine weighs in at 2,300 tons and is capable of delivering 109,000 horsepower.
The largest piston in the world!
More Enormous Piston Rods.
“DU-Sulzer 12RT A96C” translated to “One large MFD”
How it works. [Continue Reading →]
Tags: · Chief Engineer, Container Ship, emma-maersk, Engines, fire on the Emma Maersk, Interesting, largest, maersk, Marine Technology, marine-engineering, Photo, Ship Design, ship engines, ship-engine, Ships, Wartsila, Wartsila-Sulzer, world-record, world-records, worlds largest maersk
The Emma Maersk is a true Modern Marvel. She is the world’s largest container ship, longest ship currently in service and is propelled by the largest diesel engine ever manufactured. By mid-year 2006 the construction project was going well when on June 9th the accommodation block was devastated by fire. [Continue Reading →]
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The data visualization above represents the worlds 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity. We created this chart using IBM’s Many Eye’s project which we enjoy using since it gives us a clear, easy to understand and interactive picture of numeric data. Plus it looks pretty cool.
Want to know which company has the largest number of ships or the highest percentage of the overall market? If so then CLICK HERE for the interactive version.
For those who prefer more traditional data we have provided it below or CLICK HERE for the interactive version:
Source: AXS-Alphliner (February 2009)
Tags: · apl, ap_moller, china-_shipping, cma_cgm, Container Ship, containers, container_shipping, cosco_busan, Data, data_visualization, evergreen, hanjin, hapag-lloyd, ibm, Interesting, maersk, many_eyes, Maritime, Maritime Expert, nyk_line, senator, shipping, shipping_companies, Ships, teu, Web 2.0
To give everyone a good sense to the extent of the container shipping crisis, we have put together this Bubble Chart using IBM’s Many Eye’s software (with a little help from photoshop). The chart above gives a good visualization to the idle container ship TEU capacity compared to the world fleet.
According AXS-Alphaliner and Shipping Digest, idle ships as of mid-January had a total TEU capacity of 675,000 or over 5% of the world container ship fleet by TEU capacity. Predictions for February are expected to reach as much as 750,000 TEU’s.
For those of you that are not who are not visually oriented, we have also provided the hard data.
Tags: · Container Ship, shipping_industry
In reading the WSJ article mentioned yesterday titled “The Mega Containers Invade” we noticed this line: “Meanwhile, a ship capable of fitting 22,000 containers has been designed by South Korea’s STX Shipbuilding Co.”
At first read, I glanced over it without thought. Then reading it for the second time, I started scratching my head. A 22,000 TEU ship! Impossible.
Well, apparently not. STX states in the June 2008 edition of STXnews that they have indeed succeeded in the development of a 22,000 TEU class container ship. They go on to explain that they have developed both one and two-propeller types with the ability to reach 24 to 26 knots. The ultra large container ships are 460m in length, 60m wide and 30m high. Additionally, STX emphasizes the fuel efficiency of these larger ships, saying that they are capable of saving more than 40% on the unit transportation cost compared to the largest container ships of today. Additionally, the design has been developed taking into account berthing, loading and unloading capabilities at major ports.
We have not heard of a buyer or a delivery date mentioned, nor have we seen any illustrations. If anyone has further information, please leave it in the comments below.
For the full release from STX, download the PDF HERE.
Tags: · Container Ship, emma_maersk, mega_ships
Generally speaking, Mondays are our biggest days here at gCaptain.com in terms of visitors to the site. I know I spend enough time sitting in front of a computer during the week that the last thing I want to be doing on my time off is surfing around the web, so I tend to wait until Monday to get up to speed on all my favorite sites.
This Monday was particularly good for us, but rather than thinking that everyone was just so excited to get their gCaptain fix when back in front of their computers, we had to investigate.
Turns out that the Wall Street Journal did an article titled “The Mega Containers Invade.” It points to the fact that despite the current credit crisis that is sinking its teeth into the shipping industry, especially for container shippers, companies with the means are still building a record number of giant vessels that might very well knock the smaller players out of the game.
So how was this good for gCaptain? Well it gave mention to the recently delivered 13,800 TEU, MSC Daniela. And if you put the keywords “msc daniela” into google, gCaptain ranks number 1. So, to repay the favor for the 1,000 or so hits we received, here is a snippet of the article with a link back to the WSJ: [Continue Reading →]
Tags: · Container Ship, maritime security, MSC
A vessel found in 700 AD, several centuries before Vikings ruled Norway, 
This design is not new, launched last year the Bourbon Orca was the first vessel launched with Ulstein’s revolutionary bow design. Now the company is set to incorporate this design into a new class of short-sea shipping vessels. A company press release: [Continue Reading →]
Tags: · Container Ship, Interesting, Marine Technology, Master Mariner, Photo, Ship Design, Video
Containerized image via flickr user frank.merriman
Stumbling through the internet I came across this interesting article in the UK’s Financial Times titled The First Container Ship Sets Sail, April 26, 1956 and thought I would post it as a little history lesson to everyone out there. It reads:
On April 26 1956, the SS Ideal-X, an ageing tanker, departed from the Port of Newark, and docked in the Port of Houston five days later.
What was unusual in this otherwise routine coastal trip was that part of the cargo consisted of 58 35ft aluminium containers. The ship was owned by Malcom McLean of McLean Trucking, a man with little experience of shipping. What he did understand, however, was that if transportation could be integrated, the vast expense of shifting freight from land to sea, and back again, could be cut significantly.
McLean started buying ships. At first he tried transporting the loaded trailers by sea – after all, they could be wheeled on and off the boats. But this proved cumbersome and not particularly economic. The answer was to remove the trailers. Cranes would lift the boxed payloads from the trucks’ trailers, stack them on and below deck, and reload the trucks with incoming, standard-sized boxes. Freight costs fell from up to 25 per cent of the price of a product to negligible levels. [Continue Reading →]
Tags: · Container Ship, maersk
This time the Cosco Busan’s departure is not a drill and we made sure to get video evidence of the fact!
The San Francisco Chronicle tells us;
The U.S. Coast Guard said temporary repairs to the 900-foot Cosco Busan had been completed and that the vessel and the crew were cleared to sail. The ship passed under the Golden Gate Bridge around 11:30 a.m.
Meanwhile, Caltrans officials announced that repairs on the Bay Bridge fender that the ship hit and shattered also have been completed.
The Coast Guard had been concerned about the Cosco Busan’s seaworthiness and the crew’s training in bridge management. The agency also wanted to ensure that U.S. legal interests would be protected, because several lawsuits have been filed against the ship’s owner, Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong, as well as its insurer and the man piloting the ship when the accident happened, John Cota.
Regal Stone has posted a bond for the ship’s $79.5 million value with the federal government. The agreement on the security bond does not limit how much the government can seek in damages from the spill.
The ship also has a $300 million insurance policy, which is a requirement under California law, said Steve Edinger, assistant chief of the Department of Fish and Game’s law enforcement division.
“The Cosco Busan has left, and everything we needed from the vessel for our investigation we did obtain,” said Edinger, whose agency oversaw the cleanup efforts. “We are progressing the way we would normally expect in (any) oil spill.” Continue Reading…
(Coast Guard video by District Eleven Public Affairs)
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