{"id":4357,"date":"2011-02-22T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:25:23","slug":"the-largest-vessel-of-any-type-known-to-be-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-largest-vessel-of-any-type-known-to-be-in-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"the largest vessel of any type known to be in operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eugen-maersk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eugen-maersk-525x355.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eugen maersk\" width=\"525\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eugen-maersk-525x355.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eugen-maersk-1024x694.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bridging the gap between <em>mammoth&#8217;s<\/em> interest in infrastructure, global logistics, economies, and really, really big things is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jEpZtk-2EY5yvdBYbH8HlGOggnbw?docId=CNG.aa651167cd0af745b3cb395cf1d402e3.351\">this announcement<\/a> from Moller-Maersk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Danish shipper Moller-Maersk, the biggest container carrier, confirmed Monday it has signed a contract for a South Korean shipyard to build it 10 giant container ships over the next three years&#8230; The new container vessels, at 400 metres long, 59 metres wide and 73 metres tall, will be &#8220;the largest vessel of any type known to be in operation,&#8221; but emit half as much carbon dioxide as the industry average for Asia\/Europe trade, the statement added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Purchasing your own fleet of carriers will set you back <a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/maersk-places-container-ships?21971\">$2bn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/georg-maersk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/georg-maersk-525x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"georg maersk\" width=\"525\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/georg-maersk-525x339.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/georg-maersk-1023x661.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[The Georg Maersk &#8211; 9074 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units &#8211; typical shipping containers are forty feet long, meaning each count for 2 TEU). The new ships will be approximately <strong>18,000<\/strong> TEU.]<\/p>\n<p>[Photos via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/maersk\/\">Maersk<\/a>, h\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TelstarLogistic\">Telstar Logistic<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridging the gap between mammoth&#8217;s interest in infrastructure, global logistics, economies, and really, really big things is this announcement from Moller-Maersk: Danish shipper Moller-Maersk, the biggest container carrier, confirmed Monday it has signed a contract for a South Korean shipyard to build it 10 giant container ships over the next three years&#8230; The new container [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-shipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}