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See largest container ship on East Coast pass under Bayonne Bridge for 1st time (PHOTOS)
The Jersey Journal ^ | September 7, 2017

Posted on 09/07/2017 6:09:08 PM PDT by SMGFan

A new era for the Port of New York and New Jersey started this morning with the arrival of the largest ship to ever stop over on the East Coast. 

The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt sailed under the newly-elevated Bayonne Bridge today on its maiden voyage to the United States, as locals gathered at Dennis P. Collins Park to watch the massive ship's arrive.

Four times larger than the Statue of Liberty and the length of five football fields, the Theodore Roosevelt can carry more than 14,400 20-foot equivalent units (TEU). Owned by French shipping group CMA CGM, the ship made its way to New Jersey after navigating the new Panama Canal locks Aug. 22 and becoming the largest capacity ship to do so. 

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: bayonnebridge; cmacgm; containerships; eussr; france; globalagenda; globalism; killvankull; newarkbay; newjersey; newyork; statenisland
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To: Bon of Babble

I believe that ship is made out of Legos.


21 posted on 09/07/2017 6:23:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SMGFan
All that money spent to raise the bridge. Here is the reason.

And the reason why they widened the Panama Canal.

...CGM, the ship made its way to New Jersey after navigating the new Panama Canal locks Aug. 22 and becoming the largest capacity ship to do so. 

22 posted on 09/07/2017 6:25:19 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Maine Mariner

The whole industry is facing a big problem with these massive ships. There is so much capacity in the industry that they have a hard time making money on this container traffic. A number of companies have cancelled orders for their next generation of container vessels.


23 posted on 09/07/2017 6:25:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Bon of Babble
From the pictures I see, cruise ships are starting to look like:


24 posted on 09/07/2017 6:25:32 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Looks like they raised the deck on the bridge w/o having to do much on the base structure.


25 posted on 09/07/2017 6:27:41 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Chode
If she's riding high in the water and every container is identical, then I'm wondering if this was just a big PR stunt by CMA-CGM and most of the containers are empty.

I read earlier today that the ship arrived in the Port of New York today after making the transit through the Panama Canal around August 22nd. I'm not an expert on the shipping business, but everything I've heard about the industry tells me that New York is not really expected to be a prime destination for trans-Panama vessel traffic.

26 posted on 09/07/2017 6:28:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

I am not surprised. Over capacity has been a problem in the ocean shipping industry for many many years.


27 posted on 09/07/2017 6:29:25 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Jim Pelosi

I used to go over both bridges regularly when I lived on Staten Island in the 60’s and 70’s. Had an old Rambler then that hated my late husband and it died in the middle of the Bayonne bridge on him one day. He was mortified....LOL All I could do was laugh when he finally made it home.


28 posted on 09/07/2017 6:32:34 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Vince Ferrer
What's interesting is that every economic forecast and operating plan I've seen for the Port of NY/NJ has indicated that they expect very little change in vessel activity there as a result of the widening of the Panama Canal.

The issue is that New York City is so far north and east on the Atlantic seaboard. If you are a shipping line and you want to deliver 10,000 containers from Asia to the Port of New York, sailing through the Panama Canal would take much longer than either of these options:

1. Sail westbound from Asia through the Suez Canal, then through the Mediterranean Sea and across the Atlantic.

2. Sail eastbound from Asia and drop the containers off at the Port of LA/Long Beach, where they'll be loaded onto intermodal trains and carried across the U.S.

29 posted on 09/07/2017 6:34:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Bon of Babble

One of my earliest memories is from being three years old, standing in the front seat of the car, which was first in line at a grade crossing. A steam locomotive came thundering down the track, bells ringing, whistle blowing and drivers churning. A magnificent sight in 1945.


30 posted on 09/07/2017 6:36:16 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Paladin2
This is one of those projects that makes my friends jealous that I'm a civil engineer. LOL. The video below explains how they did it.

Bayonne Bridge -- Raise the Roadway Project

31 posted on 09/07/2017 6:36:44 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Paladin2
Image result for largest cruise ship
32 posted on 09/07/2017 6:39:00 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Paladin2

That’s exactly what they did. It was kind of weird when they cut out the structure to open up to the new deck and we were still driving over the lower deck. They just finished removing the lower deck and are now in the process of wrecking the old approaches.


33 posted on 09/07/2017 6:39:09 PM PDT by Woodman
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To: Paladin2
Image result for largest cruise ship
34 posted on 09/07/2017 6:39:36 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Paladin2
Image result for largest cruise ship
35 posted on 09/07/2017 6:41:18 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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36 posted on 09/07/2017 6:42:08 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: SMGFan

Roosevelt Leaving Savannah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5j7kueQPc


37 posted on 09/07/2017 6:43:31 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Alberta's Child

Thanks for the post. Way more effort than I thought, but good not to do a “Christy” on traffic flow.

Also good that they had no issues during construction like on the I75 Zilwaukee Bridge or the I480 Toledo Bridge.

I’m always impressed by the size of the parts on steam locos, but the construction beam structures on large bridges are moe impressive. CAD/CAM has come a long way.


38 posted on 09/07/2017 6:53:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: sparklite2
You must have been in awe. I remember my dad speaking of those trains as they crossed the midwest where he lived.

Those old trains were magnificent.

At our county fair, LA county, there is a section where old trains are parked and you can climb all over them. We'd go in them, sit in the engineer's seat and try to imagine what it was like to drive those old trains that were nothing but power.

Our favorite was this one, we climbed all over it, I have a photo of my son, aged four sitting in the engineer's seat. One of our favorite photos.

It was a beast!

It was hauled out of California and sent off to Wyoming to be re-fitted. We met the (young) guys who were getting her ready to be hauled out - they were extremely excited to be working on her and spoke to my son and husband for over an hour.

I was sorry to see it leave California - the young mechanics told us that most of these old beauties had been torn apart for scrap and there were IIRC, only three or four left.

39 posted on 09/07/2017 6:56:45 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Thank you Mr. Romney....


40 posted on 09/07/2017 6:57:32 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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