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MarineTraffic is a maritime analytics provider, [1] which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports. [2] A database of information on the vessels includes for example details of the location where they were built plus dimensions of the vessels, gross tonnage and International ...
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 ]
The combined deadweight tonnage of container ships and general cargo ships, which also often carry containers, represents 21.8% of the world's fleet. [ 58 ] As of 2009 [update] , the average age of container ships worldwide was 10.6 years, making them the youngest general vessel type, followed by bulk carriers at 16.6 years, oil tankers at 17 ...
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport. Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size. Primarily ...
This is a list of container ships, both those in service and those which have ceased to operate. Container ships are a type of cargo ship that transports containers . For ships that have sailed under multiple names, their most recent name is used and former names are listed in the Notes section.
Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1882, [2] Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson Navigation Company provides ocean shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the Pacific islands, China, and Japan.
Name: 20 characters to represent the name of the vessel; Type of ship/cargo; Dimensions of ship, to nearest meter; Location of positioning system's (e.g., GPS) antenna on board the vessel: in meters aft of bow and meters port or starboard; Type of positioning system: such as GPS, DGPS or LORAN-C. Draught of ship: 0.1–25.5 meters
Yang Ming currently operates 101 container ships up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and 17 bulk carriers. In between July and September 2018, Yang Ming agreed to offer a service from the Port of Keelung , Taiwan , to the US for two batches of nearly 20 containers each, containing over 1700 unused nuclear fuel rods, after the Taiwan ...