Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load

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Post by chermanowicz » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 8:57 PM UTC

Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
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Post by _delirium » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:10 PM UTC

The containers are stacked higher and nearer the edge than I would've expected for an oceangoing ship. Do ships like this lose containers in rough seas?

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Post by 3JPLW » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:14 PM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #2

The containers are stacked higher and nearer the edge than I would've expected for an oceangoing ship. Do ships like this lose containers in rough seas?

Yes, they do. A few weeks ago this hit hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8062864. 62 containers were lost due to a "once in a 100 year wave." One of which contained Legos.

I'm not sure what the expected value is for number of TEUs lost per journey. I'd hope that it's near zero, but I don't know.

Edit: quick google. Estimates range from 1,000 (World Shipping Council)[0] to 10,000 (Singularity Hub)[1] lost per year. Either way, with 120 million containers shipped per year, it's quite low.

0. http://gcaptain.com/how-many-shipping-containers-lost-at-sea...

1. http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/05/10000-shipping-containe...

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Post by joezydeco » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #2

The containers are stacked higher and nearer the edge than I would've expected for an oceangoing ship. Do ships like this lose containers in rough seas?

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This site has lots of amazing pictures if you can get past the Geocities design. Like this:

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Post by NickWarner775 » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

revolutionary transportation

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Post by alepper » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:31 PM UTC

Relatedly, 'The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger' is a great little book. I don't see sense in retreading existing reviews, but I think it would offer something of interest for many in this crowd.

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Post by brianbreslin » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:32 PM UTC

i assume this is a panamax ship? is the suez canal wider than the panama canal?

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Post by w1ntermute » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:37 PM UTC

More on the ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Triple_E_class

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Post by azernik » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:38 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #7

i assume this is a panamax ship? is the suez canal wider than the panama canal?

This ship is larger than Panamax [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Triple_E_class].

The biggest limitation on Panamax size is whether a ship can fit into the Canal's locks, but the Suez canal is a sea-level waterway with no locks, so the limit is a lot higher.

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Post by Sanddancer » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #7

i assume this is a panamax ship? is the suez canal wider than the panama canal?

The Mary Maersk is much wider than Panamax, at almost 200 feet wide. This ship seems designed to just barely squeak through the much wider Suez.