Posted on 01/10/2015 2:42:08 PM PST by moose07
The world's largest container ship, the Globe, is docking in Britain for the first time as it continues its maiden voyage. But how vast and powerful is it and how long until it's superseded?
Size
The Globe is more than 400m (1,312ft) long, the equivalent of eight Olympic-size swimming pools. It is 56.8m (186ft) wide and 73m (240ft) high, its gross tonnage is 186,000 - the equivalent of 14,500 London buses, according to the Port of Felixstowe, where it arrived on Wednesday.
But the record-breaking aspect of the Globe, owned by Shanghai-based China Shipping Container Lines and built in South Korea, is its capacity. It can carry 19,100 standard 20ft containers. That's estimated to be enough space for 156 million pairs of shoes, 300 million tablet computers or 900 million standard tins of baked beans.
Laid end-to-end, the maximum number of containers on board would stretch for 72 miles, the distance between Felixstowe and London, or Birmingham and Manchester.
"You would feel dwarfed by the Globe," says Damian Brett, container expert at Lloyd's List shipping publication. "It's like an office block lying on its side. It's a huge beast."
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The Rock Cut, down from Superior, can be a bitch.
San Francisco Bay has ocean shipping ports in Oakland and San Francisco, but for the most part the bay itself is very shallow. Its actually turning into a marsh in the southern part, and most of it is not deeper than 20-30 feet. They dredge channels to the ports and the big ships must stay in the channels.
But it's just a matter of time ... I would bet that no one thought the Costa Concordia would breach on a rock shelf either. Then there was that Titanic thing ...
And there is a lot of tonnage at the bottom of the Great Lakes too.
There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship.
Is that just about the ugliest human being you’ve ever seen? Skeletor got nuthin’ on him.
Fair enough :)
Biggest is the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think is was about 750 ft. Divers often find undiscovered wrecks.
Our guys didn't call the Somalis "skinnies" for nothing.
The Brits converted a container ship to a helicopter/Harrier carrier real fast during the Falklands war.
The Baltic Dry Index is way down and the owners of this ship may have a problem finding enough cargo
900 million tins of baked beans? Yikes!
The unions pushed for “container Rules” which said that cargo packed outside a certain number of miles had to be “re packed” before shipping. Don’t know if they are still in effect
The “Fitz” is the largest ship sunk on the Great Lakes to date. But it is relatively small by today’s standards.
Very true. We now live in MD. I’d hazard a guess that we are the only family in the state with a print of the Fitz on our living room wall. Painted by James Clary.
Next time you're in Duluth, tour the William A. Irvin. Great example of a pilot-forward 1,000-footer.
Take that back. The “Irvin” is only 610 feet, not 1,000.
Directly on the wall? Not on some kind of framed canvas hanging there? That is impressive! Definitely the only family!
Living in MD, Duluth isn’t really on my radar. Ever been to the Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point? I think Lightfoot is on a constant loop. It’s a cool museum.
Check out James Clary’s art. This is the one I have. http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2963351
It’s a stunning print when you think what happened a minute later when she might have split up or she might have capsized, she might have broke deep and took water.
Everybody’s a literalist.
Now all that remains are the faces and the names ...
Of the wives, the sons and the daughters
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