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- China-made super large container ship undocked
Date: 31-May-2007 Sources: (People's Daily)
An 8530TEU (standard container) super-large container ship, complete with independent Chinese intellectual property rights, smoothly disembarked from the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. on May 28, 2007. This makes China the fourth country to be able to independently design and construct the super large container ship, following the ROK, Japan and Denmark.
This super large container ship is the first one of five of this type of ship that is to be constructed for the China Shipping Container Lines Company Limited (CSCL). The hull is 334 meters long; there are 320 meters between the two columns; it is 42.8 meters wide and 24.8 meters deep; and it can carry 101,000 tons, making speeds up to twenty-seven knots. The entire ship can be steered by one person.
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