The world's largest 24,000 TEU class container ship, the sixth ship of the same series, left the river for sea trials
On August 30, the world's largest 24,000 TEU class container ship “OOCL PORTUGAL” (Oriental Portugal) built by Nantong COSCO Shipping Kawasaki Ship Engineering Co. This marks that all six vessels of the same series built by COSCO Kawasaki have left the Yangtze River for sea trial.
It is understood that OOCL PORTUGAL is 399.99 meters long, 61.30 meters wide, 33.20 meters deep, with a deck area equivalent to 3.5 standard soccer fields, 220,000 tons deadweight tonnage and 24,188 TEUs, which is equivalent to the loading capacity of more than 240 trains when fully loaded.
This ship type is the new generation of ultra-large container ship type with the largest loading capacity in the world, and also the largest container ship type with the largest container capacity in the navigation of the Yangtze River waterway. It integrates the cutting-edge technology in the field of ship construction, which is safe, reliable, energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and has a high degree of intelligence, and a number of indexes have reached the world's leading level.
The 24,000 TEU class series of container ships conforms to the development trend of the global shipping industry, represents the development direction of the shipbuilding industry's design and construction capability, and integrates today's most mainstream research and development achievements and intelligent means, and is a typical representative of the new generation of ultra-large intelligent and green container ships.
The first vessel of the world's largest class 24,000 TEU container ship built by COSCO Kawasaki, “OOCL SPAIN” (Oriental Spain), left the river for a trial voyage in February 2023, and so far the construction of six vessels of the same series has come to an end, marking the construction of China's advanced manufacturing clusters of “high-tech ships and offshore equipment” and “advanced manufacturing clusters of high-tech ships and offshore equipment”. “Advanced manufacturing cluster construction took an important step.
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