Explorer-class container ship explained

-- commercial vessel classes -->	+ Ship Image: 2010-07-13 CMA CGM Christophe Colomb IMG 5413a.jpg Ship Caption: CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM Builders: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China Operators: CMA CGM Built Range: 2009– Ship Type: Container ship Ship Length: 365- Ship Beam: 51m (167feet) Ship Draft: 16m (52feet) Ship Power: Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080kW) Ship Propulsion: Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller Ship Speed: 24-

The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365m (1,198feet) long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396m (1,299feet) and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the . Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.^[1]

The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.

Ships

There exist four different ship types within the Explorer class.

No.	Ship	Yard number	IMO number	Delivery	Status	ref
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (13830 TEU)
1		4156	9453559	10 November 2009	in service
2		4157	9454395	21 July 2010	in service
3		4158	9454400	16 August 2010	in service
4		4159	9454412	10 September 2010	in service
5		4160	9454424	28 September 2010	in service
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (16020 TEU)
6		4161	9454436	5 November 2012	in service
7		4162	9454448	16 April 2013	in service
8		4163	9454450	30 April 2013	in service
Samsung Heavy Industries (17722 TEU)
9		2092	9702132	31 March 2015	in service
10		2093	9702144	2 June 2015	in service
11		2094	9702156	25 August 2015	in service
Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industries (17859 TEU)
12		H6001	9706906	11 September 2015	in service
13		H6002	9706889	27 July 2015	in service
14		H6003	9706891	4 December 2015	in service

See also

• List of world's longest ships

Notes and References

1. Web site: CMA CGM puts competence at the forefront of its newbuilding programme. DNV. 23 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20131022211445/http://www.dnv.com/industry/maritime/publicationsanddownloads/publications/updates/container/2010/2-2010/cmacgmputscompetenceattheforefrontofitsnewbuildingprogramme.asp. 22 October 2013. dead.