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Friday, 21 April 2006

That's a big boat

MV Cosco Ningbo was docked in Felixstowe yesterday - the 6th port of call on her maiden voyage, which began on 22 March. She is the largest container ship in the world and can carry 9447 twenty-foot containers. Length 350.57 meters, width 42.8 meters, carrying capacity 107277 tons, speed 25.4 sea miles per hour.
















Source: Official Web Portal of Ningbo, China

Yep, that's a big boat.

Why do I tell you all this? Because we can see Felixstowe docks from our bedroom window. (Looks great at night, all lit up.)

This is the best picture I could get -



















You can see the stern clearly enough, the bow is just "touching" the trunk of the (thoughtlessly placed) tree.

Should be in Hamburg now, and due to arrive back in Shanghai in May.
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12 comments:

  1. Scott21 April, 2006 23:48

    Holy MOLY - Almost 10,000 containers!!! We have some large container ships in Hawaii, but I don't think we've anything close to that size.

    Hmmmmm, now I'm interested in how big the ones in Hawaii are. Headed to the docks...in a virtual internet sorta way.

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  2. jmk22 April, 2006 19:43

    Yep, it's a biggie. Twenty containers across. DH was in the Merchant Navy for 32 years so I have a passing interest in this sort of thing. Wish we'd gone down to Harwich Harbour for a better view.

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  3. Beverly25 April, 2006 14:41

    that is a big boat..

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  4. Beverly28 April, 2006 02:49

    I'm still looking at it and well,,its a big boat!

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  5. jmk28 April, 2006 21:24

    Beverly - Yet it's puny compared to some of the super tankers out there. That's a scary thought!

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  6. Beverly29 April, 2006 12:20

    That's such a cool view you have.

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  7. rin_Deadwhorexx29 April, 2006 19:10

    eww the bow is touching up the trunk of the tree lol im sorry that immature comment had to be sed

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  8. jmk29 April, 2006 20:34

    Hmm, Marin - isn't it past your bed time?

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  9. jmk29 April, 2006 21:14

    Thanks Beverly - it is nice to sit up there on a sunny day and watch the goings-on on the river. If I crane my neck a bit further to the left I can see the marina at Shotley.

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  10. ~drew emborsky~29 April, 2006 21:43

    Wowza!!

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  11. rin_Deadwhorexx05 May, 2006 16:21

    HEHE MY SIDEKICK NERP SHALL EAT YOU ALL MWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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  12. jmk05 May, 2006 21:43

    Ah, the dreaded Nerp. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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