A intriguing time lapse of the construction of a Maersk 18,000 TEU 400 meter long container ship.
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A intriguing time lapse of the construction of a Maersk 18,000 TEU 400 meter long container ship.
From the video, it looks like they built it in an active lock, then had to move it to allow traffic to flow and then bring it back again to build it?
I know that can’t be right.
They are building the ship in a drydock in Okpo, Korea and were moving fabricated blocks around.
Amazing SL-7’s had 1000 TEU capacity,
but ran at a high rate of speed maintaining 33 knots.
Alas double the speed is Eight times the Horspower, Fuel
consumption, CO2… Not a real problem in 1972.
Then the 1973 OPEC oil Embargo…
40 years later, The Maersk Triple E Class is incorporating these Realities into their ships designs.
The Maersk Triple Es have a lot in common with Malcolm McLean’s Jumbo Econ ships of twenty years ago. Just as McLean got his timing exactly wrong with the SL7s, he did the same with the Econ ships.