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diesel power
Coal burning sailing ships were converted to diesel power, using oil instead of steam. -
Cargo ship in World War 1
Steam driven ship carried millitary supplies including Ammunition and weapon. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
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The evolution of cargo ships
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The first cargo ship
THe Ideal-X a converted oil tanker who's deck was srengthend to carry containers. It's first voyage was from New Jersey to Texason April 26 1956 with 58 containers. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
First holds of cargo ships
The first ships had celluar holds which carried about 200 TEU ( Twenty-foot equlalent units).http://shipssupplier.com/cargo-ship.html -
First designed cargo ship
The first ship designed for container transportation was the Supanya which carried 610 TEU. 1972, the first container ships with a capacity of more than 3,000 teu were delivered from the German Howaldtwerke Shipyard. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
The Manhattan
Made the fist Atric voyage http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
PanaMax
The 4,100 teu Neptune Garnet was the largest container ship to date. Deliveries had now reached a level of 60-70 ships per year.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
Post-PanaMax
capacity of 6,400 teuhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
Post-PanaMax
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Post-PanaMax
By 2000 the global container ship fleet numbered over 6,800 vessels. Over 71 percent of these are fully cellular, meaning they are "purpose-built" to carry ocean containers in specially constructed vertical slots. The capacity of this fleet was over 5.8 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units, or TEUs.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1958.tb01746.x/abstract -
Cargo ships
172 container ships were added to the
fleet with a capacity of 7.2 mill dwt and 0.57 mill TEU
respectively. Compared with previous years these new
entries had an extremely high average capacity,
namely 3,320 TEU. 26 fully cellular ships were in
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Container Ships
the fully cellular container fleet stood at 3,036 ships with 90.2 mill dwt equal to 6.4 mill TEU total and the general cargo fleet
comprised 16,487 ships with 95.2 mill dwt equal to
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Suez-Max Ultra Large Container Ships (ULCS)
The Suez Canal canal is about 163 km long and 80-135 m wide, -
Suez-Max Ultra Large Container Ships (ULCS)
13,000 TEU. The ship is 382 metres long and 54.2 metres wide, and has a draft of 13.5 m. The 6,230 containers below deck are stacked in 10 tiers and 19 rows, while the 7,210 deck containers are stowed in 21 rows. Powered by two 45,000 kW engines, the vessel's speed is 25.5 knots.http://www.ships-info.info/ -
Post-PanaMax
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Post-Suezmax ship
A typical 5,000-6,000 teu container vessel of today.
