I understand these new ships are longer than our aircraft carriers. In trials is this new one, which does look larger...
Posted on 07/25/2005 12:58:59 PM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
MSC Pamela, the world's largest container ship, docked at PSA's Pasir Panjang Terminal Saturday in its maiden voyage to Singapore.
The 9,200-TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) vessel has the largest declared capacity for container ships in the world, and is the largest vessel to call at PSA Singapore Terminals, PSA said in a statement.
When lined up from end to end, the 9,200 TEUs of containers would span 56km which is more than the length of Singapore island from the eastern tip of Changi to Jurong in the west.
Owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) of Geneva, Switzerland, the 337-metre long MSC Pamela was built by Samsung Heavy Industries.
It will ply the Asia-Europe express route, calling at the ports of Valencia in Spain, Le Harve (France), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Felixstowe (Britain), Antwerp (Belgium), Jebel Ali (United Arab Emirates), Singapore, Chiwan (China), Busan (South Korea), Shanghai and Ningbo (China) and Hong Kong.
With the addition of MSC Pamela, the Asia-Europe express route will now be served by a total of nine MSC vessels.
PSA Singapore Terminals chief operating officer Tan Puay Hin presented a plaque to the ship's captain, Capt P. Gentili, to commemorate the ship's voyage to Singapore.
Must be a real pain when the one container you need is at the bottom of the stack...
Not all that strange considering most ocean traffic gets to the ocean port by rail mostly and some trucking. When I worked in a midwest city for an ocean container company people thought that strange. People forget the concept of Barge commerce.
Boy, that will hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.
I understand these new ships are longer than our aircraft carriers. In trials is this new one, which does look larger...
For the initial voyage, the Pamela will ship Singapore to Belgium.
There is a good photo of the largest ship in the link to the article - it looks huge.
...lol...
I wonder if they can get it in duty free?
I don't think that I would want to be on that ship in the lower picture in rough seas.
this is hugh!
Boy, that will hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.
You mean like alternators, batteries, brake replacement parts, starters, shoelaces, wheel rims, etc?
I realized that right after I did it....
Here's a better photo of a better Pamela
The landlocked piece of your comment is not that unusual. Landlocked nations have been providing flags of convenience for decades.
Nor is a large box ship built in a Korean shipyard unusual.
What is unusual is the size of this sucker.
The best thing would be if they figure out a way to stop dropping the containers overboard while underway.
For some reason Switzerland has a long tradition of maritime science and engineering. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has a reputation for offering one of the best graduate programs in naval architecture in the world.
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