Maiden voyage ceremony of CSCL Globe held in Singapore





The world's largest capacity container vessel CSCL Globe held a grand maiden voyage ceremony on Thursday in Singapore, Xinhua reports. 
CSCL (China Shipping Container Lines Co.Ltd), operator of the ship, was established 17 years ago and for that period the group managed to open about 400 stores in 100 countries worldwide. Тhe group presented the first of a kind vessel, which has the amazing dimensions of 400 meters length and 60 meters width. With this impressive size, the ship is higher than 10 stores and bigger than 4 football game grounds and its cargo capacity is about 19,100 containers. The incredible megastructure was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Republic of Korea, and is the first one of an order for five identical vessels.
The nеcessity of such kind of ships was explained by the deputy manager of CSCL, Sui Jun. He claimed the demand for mega ships came along with the need of implementing green technology and the need of being able to meet the needs of the shipping industry in time of a global economy. The new vessels will have the potential to be with 20 percent more efficent in energy consuption compared to a regular 10,000-TEU container ship.
Sui also explained the choice of the premises for the maiden voyage ceremony - Singapore. Being an important spot of the Silk Road at Sea since ancient times and nowadays a crucial transshipment hub in Southeast Asia, the port's fleet will be empowerd by a vessels like CSCL Globe and will improve drasticaly the efficiency customers are being served with.
CSCL Globe
Image of CSCL Globe yesterday in Singapore was provided by Pang Soon Tan. 



Grab a glimpse of huge container ship

Grab a glimpse of huge container ship
Grab a glimpse of huge container ship
1:30pm Thursday 18th December 2014 in News


SHIP watchers are in for a treat as the world’s large containership will be visible from Harwich next month.
The 400m China Shipping Container Line (CSCL) Globe – which is the equivalent to the length of eight Olympic-sized swimming pools – will call at the Port of Felixstowe on January 7 and 8 2015.
This will be the gigantic vessel’s first call anywhere in Europe and the only time to view it in the United Kingdom.
Fully laden the CSCL Globe could carry 156 million pairs of shoes, 300 million tablet computer or 900 millions tins of beans and weighs more than 14,500 London buses.
Hutchison Port spokesman Paul Davey said: “The arrival of the ship represents a first for the UK.
“It is important economically, the direct call recognises the scale of the UK economy and economies-of-scale provide the most efficient way to get UK exports important Asian markets.
“The call will provide strong visual images.”

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