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Container ship CMA CGM Opal berthed at North Quay in the inner harbour of Fremantle, Australia.. The history of CMA CGM can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century, when two major French shipping lines were created, respectively Messageries Maritimes (MM) in 1851 and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM) in 1855, soon renamed Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in 1861.
23,112 TEU. CMA CGM Jacques Saadé is a container ship operated by CMA CGM. She entered commercial operation on 23 September 2020 and is the first of a class of nine sister ships which at the time of construction were the world's largest vessels to be powered using liquefied natural gas. She is named after Jacques Saadé, the founder of CMA CGM ...
Draught. 16 m (52 ft 6 in) Propulsion. CMD - WinGD 12X92 DF. Capacity. 23,112 TEU. The Jacques Saadé class is a group of nine container ships each with a capacity of 23,000 TEUs built by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for French shipping company CMA CGM. Construction on the first two began in July 2018 in Shanghai by Jiangnan ...
The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365 metres (1,197 ft 6 in) long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 metres (1,299 ft 3 in) and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Triple E class.
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978. [ 4] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, [ 5] controlling ...
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
Capacity. 16,020 TEU. CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. [3] It is named after Alexander von Humboldt . CMA CGM had originally planned to name the ship after Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama . Scheduled for delivery in June 2013, [4] it is among the world's largest containerships, at 16,020 TEU.
The boxship CMA CGM Bougainville together with her five sister-vessels is the flagship for the French container line CMA CGM. The ship has overall length of 398 m (1,306 ft), width of 54 m (177 ft) and summer draft of 16.1 m (53 ft). The deadweight of the container carrier is 185,000 DWT, while the gross tonnage is 175,000 GT.