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List Of Largest Ships By Gross Tonnage
Depending on design requirements, some ships have extremely large internal volumes in order to serve their duties. Gross tonnage is a monotonic and 1-to-1 function of the ship's internal structural volume. It does not include removable objects placed outside the deck or superstructure, like the shipping containers of a container ship. Overall listing See also *List of largest cruise ships The Symphony of the Seas is the world's largest passenger cruise ship. Measuring 362m (1,188ft) long, the ship has a capacity of nearly 9,000 passengers and crew, features 23 swimming pools and 18 decks. Cruise ships are large passenger ships us ... Notes {{portalbar, Oceans Largest Ships By Gross Tonnage Largest Ships By Gross Tonnage Largest things by volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gross Tonnage
Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weight such as deadweight tonnage or displacement. Gross tonnage, along with net tonnage, was defined by the ''International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969'', adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 1969, and came into force on 18 July 1982. These two measurements replaced gross register tonnage (GRT) and net register tonnage (NRT). Gross tonnage is calculated based on "the moulded volume of all enclosed spaces of the ship" and is used to determine things such as a ship's manning regulations, safety rules, registration fees, and port dues, whereas the older gross register tonnage is a measure of the volume of only certain enclosed spaces. History The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairial (supertanker)
The ''Prairial'' was a supertanker, built in 1979 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire for Compagnie Nationale de Navigation. ''Prairial'', which was the fourth and final vessel of Batillus class supertankers (the other three were ''Batillus, Bellamya'' and ''Pierre Guillaumat''). She was the only ship of that class to have a career longer than ten years, sailing until 2003, although under different names: ''Sea Brilliance'' (1985), ''Hellas Fos'' (1986) and ''Sea Giant'' (1997). She is also distinguished as the third biggest ship ever constructed, surpassed in size only by ''Seawise Giant'' (later ''Jahre Viking'', ''Happy Giant'', ''Knock Nevis'', and finally ''Mont'') built in 1976 and subsequently lengthened, and her sister ship ''Pierre Guillaumat''. The vessel was completed and commissioned in 1979. As other ships of ''Batillus'' class, she was laid up, arriving at Vestnes, Norway on April 5, 1983, but was sold and recommissioned in 1985. She was in service under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMA CGM
CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company. It is the world’s 3rd largest container shipping company, using 257 shipping routes between 420 ports in 160 countries. Its headquarters are in Marseille, France The name is an acronym of two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement (CMA) and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM), which translate as "Maritime Freighting Company" and "General Maritime Company". History The history of CMA CGM can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century, when two major French shipping lines were created, respectively Messageries Maritimes (MM) in 1851 and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM) in 1855, soon renamed Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in 1861. Both companies were created partly with the backing of the French State, through the award of mail contracts to various destinations, French colonies and overseas territories as well as foreign countries. After the two World Wars, the two companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Container Ship
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo. Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Typical loads are a mix of 20-foot (1-TEU) and 40-foot (2-TEU) ISO-standard containers, with the latter predominant. Today, about 90% of non- bulk cargo worldwide is transported by container ships, and the largest modern container ships can carry up to 24,000 TEU (e.g., '' Ever Ace''). Container ships now rival crude oil tankers and bulk carriers as the largest commercial seaborne vessels. History There are two main types of dry cargo: bulk cargo and break bulk cargo. Bulk cargoes, like grain or coal, are transported unpackaged in the hull of the ship, generally in large volume. Break-bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Saadé-class Container Ship
The ''Jacques Saadé'' class is a group of nine container ships each with a capacity of 23,000 TEUs built by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for French shipping company CMA CGM. Construction on the first two began in July 2018 in Shanghai by Jiangnan Shipyard and Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. The first ship was launched in September 2019. The first ship was delivered on 22 September 2020. The first two ships were originally expected to be delivered in 2019, but they have been delivered in September and October 2020 after a delay of at least 10 months by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). History CSSC and CMA CGM signed a contract to produce the ships on 19 September 2017. The value of the contract was worth an estimated US$1.2 billion at the time. Construction of the first two ships began on 26 July 2018. The first ship, ''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé'', named after the founder of CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, was launched in September 2019. The first ship was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMA CGM Jacques Saadé
''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé'' is a containership operated by the CMA CGM Group. She entered commercial operation on 23 September 2020 and is the first of a class of nine sisterships which at the time of construction were the world’s largest vessels to be powered using liquefied natural gas. She is named after Jacques Saadé the founder of CMA CGM and has a capacity of 23,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit). In her own category, she is the largest container ship to sail under the French flag. History The ''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé'' is the first of a class of nine sisterships to be delivered following a decision taken by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, to order containerships powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The ship was laid down in July 2018 at the CSSC shipyard in Shanghai, launched on 25 September 2019 and completed in September 2020. She was originally scheduled to be completed in November 2019 but was delayed by 10 mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floating Storage And Offloading
A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons, and for the storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced by itself or from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil until it can be offloaded onto a tanker or, less frequently, transported through a pipeline. FPSOs are preferred in frontier offshore regions as they are easy to install, and do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker (like the ''Seawise Giant'') or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used only to store oil (without processing it) is referred to as a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel. The first of a related type, floating liquefied natural gas vessels, went into service in 2016. Types FPSOs are classified into the following types. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction to refineries. Product tankers, generally much smaller, are designed to move refined products from refineries to points near consuming markets. Oil tankers are often classified by their size as well as their occupation. The size classes range from inland or coastal tankers of a few thousand metric tons of deadweight (DWT) to the mammoth ultra large crude carriers (ULCCs) of . Tankers move approximately of oil every year.UNCTAD 2006, p. 4. Second only to pipelines in terms of efficiency,Huber, 2001: 211. the average cost of transport of crude oil by tanker amounts to only US. Some specialized types of oil tankers have evolved. One of these is the naval replenishment oiler, a tanker which can fuel a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TI Class Supertanker
The TI class of supertankers comprises the ships ''TI Africa'', ''TI Asia'', ''TI Europe'' and ''TI Oceania'' (all names as of July 2004), where the "TI" refers to the VLCC tanker pool operator Tankers International. The class were the first ULCCs (ultra-large crude carriers) to be built in 25 years. By displacement, deadweight tonnage (≈ cargo mass), and gross tonnage (a formula value based on internal volume, not mass), the TI class ships are smaller only than Pioneering Spirit. Compared to the TI class, the Maersk Triple E class container ships are longer and have a higher cargo volume, including above-deck containers. The previous largest ship, the supertanker ''Seawise Giant'', was dismantled in 2010. History All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping company Hellespont Group by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea, entering service between March 2002 and April 2003. The ships were originally named ''Hellespont Alhambra'', ''Hellespont F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IHI Corporation
, formerly known as , is a Japanese engineering corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that produces and offers ships, space launch vehicles, aircraft engines, marine diesel engines, gas turbines, gas engines, railway systems, turbochargers for automobiles, plant engineering, industrial machinery, power station boilers and other facilities, suspension bridges and other structures. IHI is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Section 1. History * 1853 – establishment of Ishikawajima Shipyard in the Chuo district of Tokyo. * 1854 - 1856: construction of the Japanese warship Asahi Maru at Ishikawajima shipyard. * 1889 – incorporation of Ishikawajima Shipyard as Ishikawajima Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. * 1907 – establishment of Harima Dock Co., Ltd. * 1929 – spinoff of Harima's automobile section as Ishikawajima Automotive Works (later Isuzu through a series of mergers) * 1960 – establishment of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. through a merge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Globtik Tokyo
''Globtik Tokyo'' was one of three oil tankers in its class. At the time her keel was laid in 1972 she was the largest supertanker in the world at 378.85 meters (1,242 feet) and 483,684 tonnes (dwt). She held that distinction until 1973 when her sister ship the ''Globtik London'' was launched. Identical in size the ''London'' was larger by 276 dead weight tonnes (dwt). Both ships had a hold capacity of 580 million liters (3.65 million US barrels).E. Abranson (1976). ''Ships of the High Seas'', Eurobook Ltd. pp.119-120. Owned by Globtik Tankers, London they were built by Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries in Kure Japan, now known as IHI Corporation. Both ships have been retired from service and broken up for scrap, the ''London'' in 1985 and the ''Tokyo'' in 1986. The third and largest ship in this class was the 484276 dwt''Nissei Maru'' owned by Tokyo Tankers built in 1975 and scrapped in 2003. Propulsion The ''Tokyo'' was powered by steam turbines totaling 45,000 horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitachi Zosen Corporation
is a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation. It produces waste treatment plants, industrial plants, precision machinery, industrial machinery, steel mill process equipment, steel structures, construction machinery, tunnel boring machines, and power plants. Despite its name, Hitachi Zosen, of which last word literally means shipbuilding, no longer builds ships, having spun off the business to Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in 2002, nor is it a ''keiretsu'' company of Hitachi any longer. History Hitachi Zōsen's origins go back to April 1, 1881, when British entrepreneur Edward H. Hunter established in Osaka to develop the Japanese steel-making and shipbuilding industry. Hunter had come to Japan in 1865 and had established the Onohama Shipyard in Kobe before moving to Osaka and establishing a new shipyard at the junction of the Nakatsu and Aki rivers which could construct ships of under 1000 tons displacement. His first vessel, the ''Hatsumaru'' was launched in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
