Posted on 12/08/2014 5:37:47 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
The world's largest capacity container ship has set off on its maiden voyage. Measuring 400 m (1,312 ft) in length and 58.6 m (192 ft) wide – or the size of four soccer fields for those more familiar with that alternative unit of measurement – the CSCL Globe can carry 19,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) shipping containers.
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As SWAMPSNIPER said,
“I remember a time when America could have built that.”
The cost of 40+ years of liberalism.
Hopey-Changey...
Our grandchildren are going to be damning us for sitting on our asses while the American Left destroyed this country. And we deserve it....
Well now isn’t that interesting. I was about to ask how fast those dockside cranes would be able to load and unload, thinking US ports, but Mexican’s doing the jobs American’s won’t do, works for me. /s
Their added-for-scale human at 1.85m high is about 6’10”tall! It must be one of my tall chinese cousins.
More than one Farad can make a large spark.
funny in the picture they have all four smokestacks pumpimg out smoke.
#4 was fake.
How many men and how quickly could it transport to Taiwain? Seems like it’d be a hell of a Trojan horse with enough cover.
“Eventually we will have ships that are 25 miles long, five miles wide and about 200 stories high.”
Royal Caribbean’s new “Oasis” class ships, like “Allure of the Seas, is almost 1,200 fett long, and 225,000 tons!
You’re a bit optimistic
1.85 meters times 3.28 ft/meter = 6.06 ft
Wow, looks like it could hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.
If there were ever an accident on that boat, well a feller sure could lose a lot of his guns.
Sure, if they learn any history...
How many coulombs? You’d be shocked.
Sometimes ships do get too big or too fast for practicality.
The 33 knot SL 7’s were found to not be the right niche and were eventually turned over to the US Navy. Tankers got too big and came back down in size for practical reasons.
These ships have a practical lifetime of 25 years. Earlier demise if it doesn't work out.
If it is going to port in Mexico they better account for 1 in 5 containers never making it from Mexico to the U.S, in other words hijacked.
$47 an hour plus benefits for data input clerks in a barcode environment?
360 short haul truckers can shut down commerce across the nation because they voted in the people who required them to upgrade their trucks 7 years ago, but suddenly demand an extension while holding up my companies freight?
No thanks!
BTW, with oil prices plummeting, it will be cheaper to fly it over next week!
And I hope the greedy union dockworkers, drivers and clerks enjoy their permanent unemployment!
Ship it to Mexico.
A ship that long would also stretch almost from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. Basically, a bridge with a bridge.
I would think a ship that large would cause a mini tsunami just moving thought the water.
Well will make up songs about to sing around the oil barrel fires in the FEMA camps.
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