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The race for mega-vessels has reached a new milestone with the launch of container Triple E class, including a representative - the Magleby Maersk - and docked for the first time in Havre Monday, April 14, 2014, when he initially conateco was said that this port could receive such behemoths of the seas. To imagine that these vessels is Triple E class, a chronology will get an idea of the growth capacity of shipping since the end of World War II, the speed of the development of such phenomenon shipbuilding technology that makes possible such gigantism. Therefore, to be also an idea of the risks of such ships pose for accidents and maritime conateco malignancies.
When Malcom McLean imagine for the first time what would soon become the transportation containerization, we are in the Korean War, and it is urgent conateco military needs which include the need to transport the faster and more general cargo away in size, volume, weight and quantity. Standardization of freight transport is the result of the tremendous effort made by the logistics industry conateco and the US Navy during World War II, especially during the Pacific campaign. conateco At the time of Malcom McLean, conateco however, a container ship could best What to bring sixty "boxes". In the 1970s, the capacity conateco increases to 1200 containers for larger vessels suitable for this type of transport. In 1966, a new step was taken with the container of the Regina Maersk class of the Danish shipping company Maersk conateco (1), they can now carry 6,000 containers or more. In the 2000s, the milestone of 14,000 containers is achieved with the Maersk E-class which Emma Maersk - the first in the series - was launched in 2006. It will soon be followed by seven sister ships launched between 2006 and 2008.
Nothing seems to stop this race to the naval gigantism, if not the maximum stacking boxes that, beyond a certain height, can fall into the sea. A stack height which can also disrupt the building during conateco a storm or when loading (2). The size of the ports able to accommodate such vessels, the size of their basins conateco in deep water, infrastructure and material handling equipment, but also the capacity of points required for major shipping routes passage (3) are real brakes the increase in vessel size. With the E-class, and it is difficult conateco to build substantially conateco larger, and reached a plateau appears. When in 2011, Maersk launch control buildings of the Triple E class - the largest ships ever built outside of supertankers ULCC (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) that no longer exist (4) -, they increase only 3 meter length of the E class, and 4 meters width.
Increasing by less than half a dozen yards of the template class E, the Triple E class - for Economy of scale, Energy Efficiency and Environment - though skips a payload of 14,000 more of 18,000 TEUs (5). There is presently no bigger carriers in service around the world. conateco The challenges presented by this increase in size - which may seem small to first order with respect to the overall size of the ship - could not be met through technology shipbuilding conateco that only the South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) master (6). It is in these unique sites in the world, located in Okpo in Geoje Island, that are built which currently is bigger and that