World’s largest container ship in port
The largest container ship in the world, the CMA CGM Marco Polo, arrived for the first time in the port of Rotterdam on the night of Saturday 15 December. The ship has a capacity of 16,000 TEU (20-foot container units) and was loaded and unloaded at ECT Delta Terminal on the Maasvlakte. The ship, 396 metres long, 54 metres wide, draught 16 metres, was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South Korea.
The ship sails the FAL 1 Asia-Europe service of the French shipping company CMA CGM and replaces one of the 11,000 TEU ships on that route. The CMA CGM Marco Polo is the first of three 16,000 TEU ships. It left Ningbo (China) early in November 2012 and will return there on 23 January 2013 after stops in Shanghai, Xiamen, Hongkong, Chiwan, Yantian, Port Kelang, Tanger, Southampton, Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Le Havre, Malta, Khor Al Fakkan and Jebel Ali.
世界上最大的集装箱船--达飞公司的马可.波罗号,于12月15日(星期六)晚间首次挂靠鹿特丹港。该船载箱量达1 6000 TEU(以20英尺标准箱为单位),在鹿特丹Maasvlakte港区Delta码头完成货物装卸。该船长396米,宽54米,吃水16米,由韩国大宇造船和海洋工程公司建造。
该船服务于法国航运公司--达飞的FAL 1亚欧航线上,取代了这条航线上原有的1 1000TEU船。 达飞马可.波罗号是三艘1 6000TEU船中的第一艘。该船2012年11月由中国宁波始发,依次停靠上海,厦门,香港,赤湾,盐田,巴生港,丹吉尔,南安普顿,汉堡,不来梅,鹿特丹,泽布鲁日港,勒阿弗尔,马耳他,豪尔费坝和阿里山港,将于2013年1月23日返回宁波。