Container ship almost twice as long as Titanic and larger ships to come

The Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCV) will take over shipping routes between Asia and Europe, as smaller containerships are no longer seen as competitive when it comes to unit costs, compared to behemoth Maersk Line Triple-E 18,000 TEU ULCV, says industry analyst Alphaliner. The Triple-E container ship is almost twice as long as the Titanic. They are lover 5 times longer than an Airbus 380.

This year’s new class of container ship, the Triple E. It has gone into service June, 2013 it is the largest vessel ploughing the sea. Each contains as much steel as eight Eiffel Towers and have a capacity equivalent to 18,000 20-foot containers (TEU).

If those containers were placed in Times Square in New York, they would rise above billboards, streetlights and some buildings. They would fill more than 30 trains, each a mile long and stacked two containers high. Inside those containers,
you could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans.

Bigger ships are more fuel efficient to move the same amount of cargo.

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