The ''Argentina'' class is a series of 22
container ships built for
Eastern Pacific Shipping and operated by
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 ...
. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 15,052
TEU. The ships were built by
Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. The first five ships are powered by conventional engines and are equipped with scrubbers. The remaining ships will be powered by
LNG
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volu ...
instead.
List of ships
See also
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''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé''-class container ship
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''CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery''-class container ship
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Explorer-class container ship
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 ...
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''CMA CGM A. Lincoln''-class container ship
References
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Container ship classes
Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group
Ships of CMA CGM