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World's largest capacity container ship embarks on maiden voyage
gizmag ^ | December 7, 2014 | Darren Quick

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: container; containership; ship; shippingcontainers
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To: Bullish

“Wow, looks like it could hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.”

Wallmart ships 600,000 containers of chinese crap here every year!


61 posted on 12/08/2014 9:44:23 PM PST by dalereed
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To: tcrlaf; SunkenCiv; Nachum; narses; EODGUY; MrB

And one torpedo from one submarine will stop it dead in the water. No sonar, just passive “home on noise” guidance from 25,000 yards out, no periscope observation needed nor wanted.. Just listen, track a few minutes, shoot. Go someplace else. Shoot another cargo ship or tanker. Go someplace else. Shoot another tanker. .....

It took 4-5 torpedoes to sink one WWII cargo ship averaging only 10,000 tons cargo.

A single modern sub can stop (might not sink, but it is stopped dead) 1,000,000 tons of cargo in one mission.

It was a rare, very rare WWII sub skipper who had more than 50,000 tons the entire war.


62 posted on 12/08/2014 11:08:21 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: nascarnation
I hope they have more than one of these things.
Nothing that big should be operated on a single wheel.
63 posted on 12/09/2014 3:15:05 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Cold Heart

a fact that keeps the breakers in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in business.


64 posted on 12/09/2014 3:53:27 AM PST by X Fretensis (How)
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To: knarf
Where are they .... the US ? .. Europe ?

The story said it was meant for the China to Europe circuit.

65 posted on 12/09/2014 3:57:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: smokingfrog

Are we building those locks as well only so some Democrat can give them away later.


66 posted on 12/09/2014 5:12:11 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: grobdriver

One engine, one screw, proven economical and reliable.

We had break downs on rare occasions but all were fixed at sea. As an example, one of the break downs occurred when an injector nozzle failed. You replace them like giant spark plugs in a ring around the head.


67 posted on 12/09/2014 9:02:09 AM PST by Cold Heart
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