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Dear Customer!
Imports are growing, especially from
China.
Seajet is growing, especially with
respect to trade from China.
And the ships sailing the Pacific are
growing, too.
Just take a look at
the amazing pictures of the world's largest container ship.
Please meet Emma Maersk. Emma is from Denmark.
Get a load of this
ship!
Her cargo capacity is roundabout
15.000 TEU (20'containers)! Yes! 15,000!
Her length is 1,302 feet and she has a beam of 207 feet!
And look at the crew size. 13. For a ship longer than US aircraft
carriers, which have complements of 5,000 men and officers!
Think it's big enough?
Note that her 207 feet beam means she was NOT designed for the Panama or
Suez canals. She sails strictly transpacific.
Check out the "cruise speed". With a 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine
(rated at 110,000 HP) her speed is 31 mph and that means, the goods
arrive four days before the typical container ship traveling at 18 to 20
mph on a China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive
when carrying perishable goods.
This ship was built in three, perhaps as many as five sections. The
sections were floated together and then welded.
The command bridge is higher than a ten story building!
Eleven container cranes can operate on her, simultaneously.
The silicone paint applied to the ship's bottom reduces water resistance
and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+
You can view many more, high resolution pictures of the Emma Maersk
on this web
web site which is a collection of ship photos taken by
the
young Danish photographer
Jesper T. Andersen. Jesper maintains a very large collection of ship
photos and covers much more than just container ships. His photos are a
treat to look at.
This is also
the perfect time to tell you that Seajet and our partners are moving
27,500 TEU under a service contract with Maersk during the 2007/2008
contract period.
The Maersk contract is the largest contract out of the total of 171,000
TEU which were comitted to
APL -6,000
CMA - 12,000
COSCO - 25,000
CSCL - 8,000
Evergreen - 26,000
Hapag-Lloyd - 3,000
Hyundai - 12,000
K-Line - 1,000
Matson - 500
MSC - 3,000
NYK - 20,000
YML - 25,000
ZIM - 2,000
We hope that you
enjoyed the pictures as much as we did and thank you for your continued
support.
Best regards,
Andreas Bauermeister
President
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