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If (like me) you're not very familiar with the huge container ships of the world, here [1] is some data. Basically it's a ship on the same scale as the Ever Gi
by unwind 6y ago
If (like me) you're not very familiar with the huge container ships of the world, here [1] is some data.
Basically it's a ship on the same scale as the Ever Given, at 400x61 meters and a gross tonnage of 235,500. "Big" would be a suitable word.
[1]: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:6213957/mmsi:351246000/imo:9868338/vessel:HMM_ROTTERDAM https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:62...
- regularfry 6y agoIn case, like me, you are confused by units, "23000 TEU" refers to the number of 20 foot containers they can carry. The average value of a container is thought to be somewhere north of $50,000. Even allowing for a fair margin of "it's a bit more complicated than that", you're in the region of $100,000,000 cargo-value per ship.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAnd in practice they carry 40-foot containers. So 23,000 TEU is probably 11,500 containers. In practice you can stack 40-footers as you wish, or stack 20-footers as you wish. But you can't mix them easily. See, two 20-footers are 'broken' in the middle, and will stress a 40-footer in the (unreinforced) center to the point of failure if stacked high enough. Which of course they do.
- _0ffh 6y agoWell, if you can stack 40-footers on top of 20-footers I suppose that would be an option? That would of course make loading more complicated, but it's hardly an insurmountable obstacle, no?
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOnce, on the bottom layer, you can have 20-footer(s). Once you go to 40-footers you can never go back in the stack. They're stacked 10-high above the deck. So you can have <10% 20-footers. Or put them all on the bottom, and only switch to 40-ft once.
- _0ffh 6y agoQuite, that's what I mean. Stack all the 20s first, then top it up with 40s.