7-496: OOCL Hong Kong was the largest container ship ever built at the time she was delivered in 2017, and the third container ship to surpass the 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) threshold. She is also the first ship to surpass the 21,000 TEU mark. She is the lead ship of the G class , of which five other ships were built. She was built at the Samsung Heavy Industries , Geoje , shipyard with yard number 2172 and
14-515: A 77-day round trip. [REDACTED] Media related to OOCL Hong Kong (ship, 2017) at Wikimedia Commons List of largest container ships This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport . Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size . Primarily, these are
21-457: A capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS). In August 2021, the record for most containers loaded onto a single ship is held by the Ever Ace , which carried a total of 21,710 TEU of containers from Yantian to Europe. As of January 2024, the record for the largest container ship
28-464: Is only 14.6 knots (27.0 km/h; 16.8 mph). OOCL Hong Kong and her sister ships— OOCL Japan , OOCL Germany , OOCL United Kingdom , OOCL Scandinavia , and OOCL Indonesia —serve the route from East Asia to Northern Europe calling at Shanghai , Ningbo , Xiamen , Yantian , Singapore , via Suez Canal , Felixstowe , Rotterdam and Gdańsk ; returning via Wilhelmshaven , Felixstowe, via Suez Canal, Singapore, Yantian, and Shanghai in
35-456: The anchor and its 142-millimetre (5.6 in) caliber chain. Power for onboard machinery is provided by four 4,300 kW generator sets and two bow thrusters. OOCL Hong Kong is powered by an inline two-stroke, 11-cylinder MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT) G-type 11G95ME-C9 engine, which generates 83,656 hp (62,382 kW) of power at 79 RPM. This engine allows for a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph), although her cruising speed
42-470: The availability of sufficiently large main engines and the availability of a sufficient number of ports and terminals prepared and equipped to handle ultra-large container ships. Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with
49-656: Was christened and delivered in May 2017, only two months after the christening of the first ship to break the 20,000 TEU barrier, MOL Triumph . The six ships of the G-class were built within the same year at the same shipyard. OOCL Hong Kong has a capacity of 21,413 TEUs, which are arranged in 23 rows. She also carries 14,904 cubic metres (14,904,000 L) of fuel. Machinery on deck includes ten 35-tonne tension force electrically driven, double-drum mooring winches and two combined electrically driven anchor windlasses for raising and lowering
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