Thursday, August 31, 2017

New Record Set




 Photo by: Panama America
The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt is the largest buyer that has passed through the new locks of the Panama Canal, completing a trip between Asia and the east coast of the United States.

As it passed through the new locks, the ship established a new record of total allowed TEUs (20-foot containers) in the Panama Canal, with a mark of 14 thousand 863.

The ship is 365.96 meters long and 48.252 meters wide. To get an idea of ​​its dimensions, its size is similar to two pyramids of Giza, four Big Ben and eight Statues of Liberty.

Others of the new capacity dossier, the vessel took advantage of the environmental efficiencies of the channel expanded the saving 29 thousand 561 tonnes of CO2, compared with those that issued and followed the alternate route of the Cape of Good Hope.


He started his trip in Shanghai and will arrive at the ports on the east coast of the United States.


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