''CMA CGM Zheng He'' 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 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 ...

. It is among the world's largest containerships, at 16,020 TEU. The ship was built by Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, the same shipyard that built sister ship

CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin CMA CGM ''Benjamin Franklin'' is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. Delivered in November 2015,Cox, Martin.Benjamin Franklin gets Hollywood Welcome''Maritime Matters'', December 27, 2015 she is named after Benjamin Franklin, one ...

. At the time of its launch it was the longest ship built on hull in China. It is the second CMA CGM ship to be named for

Zheng He Zheng He (; 1371–1433 or 1435) was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty. He was originally born as Ma He in a Muslim family and later adopted the surname Zheng conferred ...

CMA CGM Marco Polo ''CMA CGM Marco Polo'' is a Bahamas-registered container ship of the owned by the CMA CGM group. On 6 November 2012, it became the largest container ship in the world measured by capacity (16,020 Twenty-foot equivalent unit, TEU), but was surpa ...

was originally named for the Chinese explorer.

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2015 ships