Posted on 12/08/2014 5:37:47 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Now America would only build it if our Jones-Act, union shipyards were paid about $15 billion by the US government to do it.
I guess Pielsticks are out...
I didn’t really get just how massive this ship is till I saw the photos here....
Because of longshoreman mafia??
It’s so large, the Pacific flows through the aft, while the Atlantic flows by the bow.
“I would think a ship that large would cause a mini tsunami just moving thought the water.”
They do...
Ever seen the vids of the Mega-cruisers leaving the Port of Ft. Lauderdale?
I am 1.87m high and 6’2”.
It is still too damn big for me to set foot on. I much prefer the small cruise ships. They can get into places the big ones can't and the crew provides much more personal interaction. They'll even let you up on the bridge while underway when you let them know you're a former Navy ship driver.
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>> “Is that like a foot ball field?” <<
A Succer field is a “developmentally disabled football field.
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I enjoyed the graphics of the various ships. Now, perhaps you can do a graphic of the current Panama Canal which this big container ship can’t fit thru. I think the new Canal opens in 2016. Til then, cntr ships are stuck with high W. Coast Teamsters unloading or Canada or Mexico, or around S. America (add 2 weeks transit).
~I always ask ... why ?
That thing is not designed to go from port to port like a Carnival cruise ... and there aren’t too many places that can dock the thing, so it’s destination can only be to one or two places.
Where are they .... the US ? .. Europe ?
What kind of logistics have to be in play in order for this thing to be utilitarian ?
I got a TON o’ questions~
The purpose of these ships is actually to haul Walmart-type merchandise from South-East China to California.
It doesn’t need a capability to land elsewhere.
Or just another thought the USS Iowa Could hit the casino still tied up to the dock in San Pedro
California will lose some of their business to the gulf states as the new canal across Nicaragua, built wider than the Panama Canal, can allow larger ships across to gulf and east coast states.
“The purpose of these ships is actually to haul Walmart-type merchandise from South-East China to California.”
Maersk bought the port of Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico to build a “Superport” for these ships, and their own super-ships, a few years ago.
The port connects directly to the Kansas City Southern Railway, right into the Central U.S.
The Punta Colonet Superport has been on hold, because the US Enviros (with Union support, imagine that), are fighting rebuilding the rail connection through the California desert.
I am not too far off actually.
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