Emma Maersk - read to the end

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

From R/O Michel Bougard.


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E m m a   M a e r s k ===============         You must read the ending....     See the editorial under the last picture.  That says it all! ==============================================      The Emma Maersk, part of a Danish shipping line, is shown in the photos below.                         What a ship...no wonder 'Made in China ' is displacing North American made goods big time.              This monster transports goods across the Pacific in just 5 days!  This is one of three ships presently in service, with another two ships commissioned to be completed in 2012.                                                 These ships were commissioned by Wal-Mart to get all their goods and stuff from China .  They hold an incredible 15,000 cartons and have a 207 foot deck beam!  The full crew is just 13 people on a  ship  longer than a US Aircraft Carrier (which has a crew of 5,000).         With it's 207' beam, it is too big to fit through the Panama or Suez Canals ..                               It is strictly transpacific.  Cruise speed:  31 knots.         The goods arrive 4 days before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on         a China-to-California run.  91% of Walmart products are made in China ..         So this behemoth is hugely competitive even when carrying perishable goods.                            The ship was built in five sections.  The sections were floated together and then welded.            The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs           that can operate simultaneously unloading the entire ship in less than two hours.                        Additional info:                 Country of origin - Denmark                      Length - 1,302 ft                      Width - 207 ft                      Net cargo - 123,200 tons                      Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP)                      Cruise Speed - 31 knots                       Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)                      Crew - 13 people !                      First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006                      Construction cost - US $145,000,000+                    Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water                     resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.                                             Editorial Comment!             A recent documentary in late March, 2010, on the History Channel noted that              all of these containers are shipped back to China , EMPTY.  Yep, that's right.              We send nothing back on these ships.  What does that tell you about             the current financial state of this country?  Just keep buying those imported             goods (mostly gadgets) until you run out of money.             Then you may wonder what the cause of unemployment (maybe even your job)             in the U.S. and Canada  might be.              'Nuff said ??                      This message, if any, surely deserves forwarding, doesn't it ?

David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
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[Glenn VK4DU]

Distance Shanghai-LA 5657 nm.

To do that in 5 days means the ship would have to average 47 kts!

Also, there is no way that the shipping company would run the ship empty on
one leg....

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From R/O Michel Bougard.

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E m m a   M a e r s k
===============
 
      You must read the ending.... 
 
 See the editorial under the last picture.  That says it all!
==============================================

     The Emma Maersk, part of a Danish shipping line, is shown in the photos
below. 

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Unfortunately with USA shipping most of the time we came back empty.  That's what happens when you are the country that sends finished goods to places where they don't make anything useful.

Unfortunately that seems close to what the USA and China are doing - but with the roles reversed.

73

[Hans van den Toorn]

 

 

 

In the text between the pictures a cargo capacity of 15.000 TEU is mentioned, that's ok, but a TEU is not 20 cubic feet.

The size of one TEU (Twenty feet Equivalent Unit) is 20 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8,5 feet high.

This means one TEU is 1360 cubic feet.

 

During my time on containerships we carried 5000 TEU max, and we thought we sailed on a very big ship ...

 

73

 

Hans van den Toorn/PA3ERE

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It’s good to see that our competition lacks an effective US sales force, Matson does not make the west bound trip empty!

 

It should also be noted that the Emma Maersk cannot leave Shanghai with a full load due to draft restrictions in the port so has to stop elsewhere to top off and run

With much higher fuel consumption to make up time for the post Shanghai port call.

 

Rgds:

Eric

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I read about this on Wikipedia and noticed some discrepancies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk

- It can transit the Suez Canal.

- It's was used for the Far East - Europe trade.

When did Walmat start using them?

Mike N2MS

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