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 But how vast and powerful is it and how long until it's superseded?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."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Yep, 2,366 cubic feet at a time.
“That’s a lot of Lego! “
LOL, that was a fun thread.
The economies of scale with such a large ship will tend to make it less expensive to transport something on that ship than on a smaller one.
Container ships practically destroyed the Longshore unions.
This will make product much more affordable to U.S. consumers while ensuring that labor unions are strangled the same way they've been strangling U.S. businesses for decades.
Sadly, most of the boxes do go back empty. It seems that USA’s main westbound exports are wood chips and scrap.
Container sizes are standardized by ISO (International Standards Organization). The design applies to rail, truck and air transport.
I know that JetWay Inc. was working on support equipment to load standard containers into 747-Fs. I would think that air service would require lighter materials to keep fuel consumption reasonable.
Regards,
GtG
CRAP! That thing is bigger than my house!
Cool. Thanks.
-— Container ships practically destroyed the Longshore unions. ——
A big plus. I wonder what percentage of cargo used to get stolen in transit.
I think I left my wallet in the 23rd container from the stern, 12 levels down, 34th carton in, 6 layers down; the brown box with a bar code on it.
40 days, huh. The factory where I work still can’t get their bits and pieces here on time.
I’m not in supply-chain management, but when you have some junk made in China, other junk made in Mexico, other junk made in Poland ... things get complicated trying to put all the junk together to get a product out on time.
I don’t see why we can’t make some of these bits and bobs down the road in the US, but, what do I know?
Containers also drastically damaged the money supply to/power of the mafia as well.
There was a recent archaeology story about Cornwall, and apparently the derelict Legos arrive at different beaches sorted by the shape (each type arrives at a specific different beach). :’)
I’ve heard that in parts of Lake St. Clair, the keel rides a foot or two above the lake bottom.
There sure was: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3243084/posts
:)
I used to work with a French guy. When he moved back to France, I heard that when his shipping container arrived, there was a family stowed away on it. It probably smelled worse than he did by Thursday. (Management actually had to talk with him about basic hygiene.)
1400 feet long - 180 feet wide - and 60 feet deep. -tom
They put ships in those locks with about a foot clearance on each side.-Tom
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