''OOCL Hong Kong'' was the
largest container ship ever built at the time she was delivered in 2017,
and the third
container ship
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to surpass the 20,000
twenty-foot equivalent unit
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(TEU) threshold. She is also the first ship to surpass the 21,000 TEU mark.
She is the
lead ship
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Large ships are very complex and may ...
of the
G class G class or Class G may refer to:
Locomotives
* NZR G class (1928), a type of steam locomotive used in New Zealand
* Tasmanian Government Railways G class, a class of 0-4-2T steam locomotive used in Australia
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, of which five other ships were built.
She was built at the
Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the largest ...
,
Geoje
Geoje (Hangeul: ; Hanja: 巨濟; ) is a city located in South Gyeongsang province, just off the coast of the port city of Busan, South Korea. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (former Daewoo Shipyard) in Okpo and Samsung Heavy Industries (SH ...
, shipyard with yard number 2172 and was christened and delivered in May 2017, only two months after the christening of the first ship to break the 20,000 TEU barrier, .
The six ships of the G-class were built within the same year at the same shipyard.
Design
''OOCL Hong Kong'' has a capacity of 21,413 TEUs, which are arranged in 23 rows. She also carries of fuel. Machinery on deck includes ten 35-tonne tension force electrically driven, double-drum mooring winches and two combined electrically driven anchor windlasses for raising and lowering the anchor and its caliber chain. Power for onboard machinery is provided by four 4,300 kW generator sets and two bow thrusters.
''OOCL Hong Kong'' is powered by an inline two-stroke, 11-cylinder MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT) G-type 11G95ME-C9 engine, which generates of power at 79 RPM. This engine allows for a top speed of , although her cruising speed is only .
Service
''OOCL Hong Kong'' and her sister ships—''OOCL Japan'', , , ,
and —serve the route from East Asia to Northern Europe calling at
Shanghai
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,
Ningbo
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,
Xiamen
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,
Yantian
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Before 1960s, the ...
,
Singapore
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, via
Suez Canal
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,
Felixstowe
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His ...
,
Rotterdam
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and
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
; returning via
Wilhelmshaven
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, Felixstowe, via Suez Canal, Singapore, Yantian, and Shanghai in a 77-day round trip.
See also
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Notes
References
External links
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Merchant ships of Hong Kong
Container ships
Ships of the Orient Overseas Container Line
2016 ships