CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM
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Class overview | |
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Builders: | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China |
Operators: | CMA CGM |
Built: | 2009– |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Container ship |
Tonnage: | 153,000–175,000 GT |
Length: | 365–396 m (1,198–1,299 ft) |
Beam: | 51 m (167 ft) |
Draft: | 16 m (52 ft) |
Installed power: | Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080 kW) |
Propulsion: | Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller |
Speed: | 24–25 knots (44–46 km/h; 28–29 mph) |
Capacity: | 13,300–16,020 TEU |
The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. They are mostly named after explorers (Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations). The first five ships are 365 m long with a nominal capacity of 13,300 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 m and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Maersk Triple E Class.
Advanced simulators were built, to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.