''CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt'' is an

Explorer class containership The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships unti ...

built for CMA CGM. It is named after Alexander von Humboldt. CMA CGM had originally planned to name the ship after Portuguese explorer

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link E ...

. Scheduled for delivery in June 2013, it is among the world's largest containerships, at 16,020 TEU.

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