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Post-Panamax or over-Panamax denote ships larger than Panamax that do not fit in the original canal locks, such as supertankers and the largest modern container and passenger ships. The first post-Panamax ship was the RMS Queen Mary , launched in 1934, built with a 118-foot beam as she was intended solely for North Atlantic passenger runs.
Bulk carrier: Tonnage: up to 400,000 ... Post-deepening of the Suez Canal, ... Panamax and Capesize bulk carriers have been required to carry free-fall lifeboats ...
Toggle Bulk carriers subsection. 2.1 Capesize. 2.2 Panamax. 2.3 Handysize. 3 Tankers. Toggle Tankers subsection. 3.1 VLCC. ... Post-Panamax. Ship Built DWT TEU Flag ...
(2) Freighter or pure container (as per passenger carrier-type) (3) Feeder or world-wide foreign-going vessel (as per trade) (4) Panamax or post-Panamax vessel (as per breadth of vessel < or > than 32.2m respectively) Built: 1956–present: In service: 9,535 ships as of 2010 [1] General characteristics; Propulsion: Typically diesel since 1990 ...
It ordered the construction of 10 bulk cargo vessels in 2017 and 2018, the majority from Japanese shipyards. [17] [3] In 2019, Foremost received an "eco-friendly" post-Panamax bulk carrier built by Japanese Oshima Shipyards in Nagasaki Prefecture and financed by the First Commercial Bank of Taiwan. [18]
A Panamax port is a deepwater port that can accommodate a fully laden Panamax ship. With the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project in 2016, this list will need to be significantly revised due to larger "post panamax" ships transiting Panama.
This is a list of bulk carriers, both those in service and those which have ceased to operate. Bulk carriers are a type of cargo ship that transports unpackaged bulk cargo . For ships that have sailed under multiple names, their most recent name is used and former names are listed in the Notes section.
Pasha Bulker, later known as MV Drake and now MV Anthea, is a Panamax bulk carrier of 76,741 tonnes deadweight (DWT) operated by the Lauritzen Bulkers shipping company and owned by Japanese Disponent Owners.