'It takes up the whole river!' US ports welcome giant ship
Source: Associated Press
Russ Bynum, Associated Press
Updated 3:00 pm, Thursday, May 11, 2017
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The largest cargo ship ever to visit ports on the U.S. East Coast is so long the Statue of Liberty and Washington Monument could fit end-to-end along its deck and still leave room for Big Ben.
The COSCO Development arrived Thursday at the Port of Savannah after cruising past dozens of onlookers who cheered and took photos of the mammoth vessel from Savannah's downtown riverfront. Its first East Coast voyage marks a new era for U.S. ports that, despite years spent anticipating the supersized ships, will struggle to accommodate them without major infrastructure improvements.
"It takes up the whole river!" Andrew Evans, who served as a ship's officer in the 1960s, exclaimed to his wife as the ship slowly lumbered into view, the cargo containers stacked on its deck towering above trees on the shore.
"The largest ships I was on, you could fit 10 of them on that ship," Evans said. "Maybe more."
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I'm also looking forward to an eventual idiot Rump statement about our failure to ready our ports for this. Someday. Perhaps it'll even beat his coming down definitively for steam catapults on military ships versus electromagnetic (or as he puts it, "digital"
. Lol.
Itm, this picture actually makes me think of why I purchase old picture frames second-hand: These days they're all made flat to pack as many into a crate as possible. Nothing like personalization of world events.
The 400m-long MOL Triumph is the first of a new type of ultra-large container vessel to enter service this year. Its operators claim it is more fuel efficient than previous carriers.
Built by Samsung in South Korea, the ship will run between Chinese and European ports. It can hold the equivalent of 20,170 containers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-39882244
And that's only the second largest in the world. by TEU. Maersk took delivery of the largest last month - 20,568 TEU: http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/asia/madrid-madrid-world-s-largest-containership-makes-maiden-call.html
COSCO Development is a modest 13,114 TEU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships . It's only about 100th in the list.
It's mind-blowing even empty, as it was, at the beginning. Yikes.
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