Over the weekend, the container ship, CMA CGM Brazil, docked at the marine terminal in Port Elizabeth, NJ, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey on Newark Bay. At 15,148 TEU, it is said to be the largest container ship ever to call on any port on the U.S. East Coast. To make this possible, the Port Authority invested $1.6 billion dollars to dredge the channel and raise the roadway on the Bayonne Bridge to allow the new larger neo-Panamax ships to transit, as well as spending $40 million for new container cranes and equipment.
While the CMA CGM Brazil is indeed a large ship, it is by no means the largest of her type. This year, HMM Algeciras, the first of twelve ships of her class, was delivered with a container capacity of 23,964 TEU.
CMA CGM Brazil Arrives at Port Elizabeth, Largest Cargo Ship To Call on East Coast
How many containers will this one lose when she tosses her load?
How many containers were full of imports and how many were returning empty after US exporting stuff?
Much bigger ships come to the UK because our balance of trade is rubbish and our port infrastructure is good. However, they do call at Rotterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg as well so we don’t get everything they bring.
All trash from China!
Not much is made in the USA now.
I forgot to all, the new container cranes and equipment, all made in China or S. Korea.
Needs to be a prohibitive tax on all empty containers returning to China.
Maritime-executive are reporting: “The ocean conservancy group Oceana however issued a report saying that the CMA CGM Brazil exceeded the 10-knot voluntary speed limit in a right whale conservation zone during its voyage south from Canada to the New York area.”
Not a good start!