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Maersk brings world's largest ship into service
Telegraph ^
| 1:15PM BST 05 Jul 2013
| Alan Tovey
Posted on 07/05/2013 9:53:09 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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posted on
07/05/2013 9:53:09 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Designing a ship that’s too big to be handled by the ports.
That’s like building an SUV that’s too wide for the highways.
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posted on
07/05/2013 9:57:30 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
To: Pan_Yan
We’re gonna need a bigger boat? Nevermind.
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posted on
07/05/2013 9:58:07 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: Pan_Yan
Find the container holding the ten-megatonner.
5-year project.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:01:02 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
To: Pan_Yan
That's a shipload of ship.
To: Old Sarge
Not exactly the same. Those 16 ports that can handle these are likely quite busy ports taking a constant flow of container ships between them.
A few of these will stay busy. Just like a few of the Ultra-Large Crude Carriers can visit few ports but go to those few constantly.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:01:44 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Old Sarge
Maersk has already awarded the contracts for larger ships.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:05:40 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Pan_Yan
Holy crap. That’s 8 ft. short of a quarter mile long ship!
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:09:51 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Pan_Yan
The day this ship is commissioned will become a Somalian national holiday .
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:12:35 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Old Sarge
Discovery channel will air a series on building the ship
http://www.worldslargestship.com/discovery-channel-to-broadcast-maersk-triple-e-build/
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:16:39 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: Pan_Yan
That’s a carrier and an escort destroyer combined.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:18:06 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I'm so conservative I won't even wear progressive bifocals.)
To: Pan_Yan; showme_the_Glory
To: Pan_Yan
Capable of carrying 16pc more cargo than Maersk's largest vessel currently plying the oceans, the Triple E class was designed to cut costs through economies of scale.There should be some traffic first. From Wiki:
"The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the index provides "an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea. Taking in 23 shipping routes measured on a timecharter basis, the index covers Handysize, Supramax, Panamax, and Capesize dry bulk carriers carrying a range of commodities including coal, iron ore and grain."
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:24:40 AM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: Old Sarge
During World War II some German tanks had to have their tracks removed when loaded onto flatcars in order to be able to go through the train tunnels in Europe. Too wide. The Tiger I comes to mind.
To: 17th Miss Regt
I remember reading about that.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:38:24 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
To: Old Sarge
We’re gonna need a bigger port..............
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:39:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Pan_Yan
I have a distant cousin who is a big shot at MAERSK. He has more money than God.
If I was him, I would have retired decades ago.
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posted on
07/05/2013 10:43:21 AM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: martin_fierro
I was up in the city a couple of years ago and look out over the bay.
I say an office building in the middle of the bay and thought “Why the heck would anyone put a building over?”
Felt dumb as heck when I late realized what it really was...
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:23:42 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: martin_fierro
We should give it its own zip code..
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:27:43 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: Oatka
Remember, this is dry bulk carriers, not container ships.
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posted on
07/05/2013 11:34:13 AM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
( New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Buy from Amazon.)
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