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The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea
HughPickens.com writes Alastair Philip Wiper writes that at 194 feet wide and 1,312 feet long, the Matz Maersk Triple E is the largest ship ever built, capable of carrying 18,000 20-foot containers. Its propellers weigh 70 tons apiece and it is too big for the Panama Canal, though it can shimmy through the Suez. A U-shaped hull design allows more room below deck, providing capacity for 18,000 shipping containers arranged in 23 rows – enough space to transport 864 million bananas. The Triple-E is constructed from 425 pre-fabricated segments, making up 21 giant "megablock" cross sections. Most of the 955,250 liters of paint used on each ship is in the form of an anti- corrosive epoxy, pre-applied to each block. Finally, a polyurethane topcoat of the proprietary Maersk brand color "Hardtop AS-Blue 504" is sprayed on.
Twenty Triple-E class container ships have been commissioned by Danish shipping company Maersk Lines for delivery by 2015. The ships are being built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering factory in the South Korean port of Opko. The shipyard, about an hour from Busan in the south of the country, employs about 46,000 people, and "could reasonably be described as the worlds biggest Legoland," writes Wiper. "Smiling workers cycle around the huge shipyard as massive, abstractly over proportioned chunks of ships are craned around and set into place." The Triple E is just one small part of the output of the shipyard, as around 100 other vessels including oil rigs are in various stages of completion at the any time." The vessels will serve ports along the northern-Europe-to-Asia route, many of which have had to expand to cope with the ships' size. "You don't feel like you're inside a boat, it's more like a cathedral," Wiper says. "Imagine this space being full of consumer goods, and think about how many there are on just one ship. Then think about how many are sailing round the world every day. It's like trying to think about infinity."
Twenty Triple-E class container ships have been commissioned by Danish shipping company Maersk Lines for delivery by 2015. The ships are being built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering factory in the South Korean port of Opko. The shipyard, about an hour from Busan in the south of the country, employs about 46,000 people, and "could reasonably be described as the worlds biggest Legoland," writes Wiper. "Smiling workers cycle around the huge shipyard as massive, abstractly over proportioned chunks of ships are craned around and set into place." The Triple E is just one small part of the output of the shipyard, as around 100 other vessels including oil rigs are in various stages of completion at the any time." The vessels will serve ports along the northern-Europe-to-Asia route, many of which have had to expand to cope with the ships' size. "You don't feel like you're inside a boat, it's more like a cathedral," Wiper says. "Imagine this space being full of consumer goods, and think about how many there are on just one ship. Then think about how many are sailing round the world every day. It's like trying to think about infinity."
Don't these fools know that everything is either 3D printed on site or sent by delivery drone these days?
I heard Kevin Sorbo once tried to drink an entire ocean. The water level didn't even budge.
20 of the worlds largest vessels, built and delivered in a couple of years, now *thats* a production line worthy of the name!
The size of the vessel may be whats being pushed as the impressive thing here, but really its the fact that they can push out 13 of these at a time - instant fleet renewal! I can't think of one western shipyard which comes close to that capacity - even the two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers are having to be built one after each other due to shipyard limitations, and thats just two vessels, not 13!
It depends on whether the TV floats or not. Usually the question uses rocks or something that will obviously sink, but the GP was making a joke rather than asking seriously.
The answer though - when in a boat, the displacement is equal to its own weight. When submerged, the displacement is equal to its own volume. In the case of rocks, they have quite a small volume or large mass relative to water. Therefore the water level will go down. I think.
Lets assume your object sinks - the density of the object is greater than the density of water.
When the object is on the ship, the amount of water displaced will be dependent on the weight of the object.
When the object is under the water, the amount of water displaced will be dependent on the volume of the object.
Since the density of the object is greater than water, the volume of water displaced under the water is less than the volume of water displaced whilst above water
Therefore the water level will rise a teeny tiny amount.
However the water level will fall relative to the side of the ship because the ship will not displace quite so much
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If they forgot to add toilets.
enough space to transport 864 million bananas
I'm so happy to see we have finally converted to the banana scale. I've been waiting for this since horsepower was invented!
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Impressive. But I think it's false to claim this this is the largest ship ever build. The Knock Nevis supertanker was 200' longer and 30' wider. It now no longer exists; scrapped in 2009. Not all technologies get monotonically bigger and better as time goes on.
enough space to transport 864 million bananas
Yes, I too calculate volumes in MegaBananas.
Except for astronavegation, where I base all my calculations on Earth's volume of 1.086 PetaBananas.
Surely the Jahre Viking (one of many names) remains the largest ship ever built? Longer and wider.
Ship breaking is very tedious process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_breaking
Why no to build-in capabilities for a ship to break itself easily?
... they're worrying a bit about the sea-level when they put it to water.
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A man is sitting in this ship, and throws a massive Korean-made LED TV-screen overboard into the water.
As a result, will the water level rise, or drop?
It depends on the answer to the following questions:
- Was the TV's weight being held by the ship? Or was it held neutral by, for example, helium balloons.
- What water does the question refers to? The Sea outside the ship? Or the captain's quarters' Olympic swimming pool.
- Shall the answer take into account the man's decrease in weight caused by the calorie loss due to the TV throwing? And, in that case, what's the man's lean body mass, BMI, weight and basal consumption rate?
The shipyard is actually called Okpo (if it matters to anyone that wants to look it up)
Almost. The water level will remain the same since the rock will only sink to the level where the density of the water is equal to it, hence it attains neutral buoyancy.
(proof: pumice floats).
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The Maersk E class is the largest currently in service, and the largest container ships ever built, but they're definitely not the largest ships ever built. On either length, or gross tonnage, there have been a number of tankers which are quite a bit bigger, although none are still in service.
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The Triple-E is unusual in several aspects apart from its size.
1. It has 2 engines instead of one. This improves packaging (less volume lost to the engine room), mainly because the engines are shorter (8 cylinders in line instead of 14). Earlier ships had one engine to reduce complexity.
2. It's slower, with an operational speed of 35 km/h (down from 45 km/h of its predecessor). This saves fuel.
"Then think about how many are sailing round the world every day" - if they're too big to get through the Panama Canal, then the answer will be approximately none.
Found the address on their website: 3370 Geoje-daero, Geoje-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Googled for "Opko, South Korea" and it took me to a city called "Mopko" which is far away.
Larry Ellison doesn't have a boat that comes close to that. C'mon Larry, you're losing your Mojo dude! And its made in Korea!
Of course his (Russian) Mig29 could probably sink it.
What's it gonna be Larry? Are you gonna kick ass or chew gum?
That's easy. Train A will arrive in New York forty-two minutes before train B arrives in Los Angeles.
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Can't we get the same thing for our cars? Is it available at some professional paint shops?
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If it floats, it will be neutral because it will displace as much water equal to its own mass. If it sinks, it will displace less water than equal to its own mass.
Can you see the smiles on the somali pirates? Hope you got some anti pirate features on those things cause it's a great big bulls eye.
These shps burn the cheapest dirtiest fuel available - stuff that is leftover from refinining crude into everything else - it is asphalt. It contains up to 4.5 % sulfur.
"Just 16 of the world's [ formerly ] largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world's cars."
Here at maersk We've dreamed of a futuristic system, perhaps a ship of some sort, that could in theory transport 864 million delicious bananas. The future is here and its an amazing time to be alive. We've found ourselves at the pinnacle of banana transport systems with this new ship, and we've chosen to push the envelope in unimagineable ways. Maersk hopes to deliver, on our glistening fleet of 20 new ships, 17,280 billion delicious, yellow bananas. Imagine it: bananas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and whenever you want. The world will never know that pesky scourge of having to sit through a TV show without the comfort of a banana. Long gone will be the days when people had to use the toilet without bananas, walk their dogs without bananas, and even do their taxes without the aid of a banana in hand.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Both this and the original source at Wired have the name of the Korean place wrong, it's "Okpo", not "Opko".
Signed, your local friendly Korean geography nazi.
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Did anyone say smiling workers at Legoland? "Everything is awesome" is the first thing I thought about.
So it can carry 20,000 containers. A better question would be how many WILL it carry? 30,000? 40,000?
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Last I knew these mega ships emit staggering amounts of CO2 because their giant engines burn the cheapest dirtiest fuel possible.
I think it's time to rethink civilian nuclear power for mega ships.
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It's interesting that the shipping industry never seems to learn. They continue to bring on more and more capacity while shipping prices are at historic lows.
Perhaps the plan is to flood the market with even cheaper capacity and drive a bunch of competition out of business so they can raise rates later... Then the cycle will start all over again.
Did anyone else think that, when they saw the second photo on the Wired.com article that some awkward conversation took place prior to the photo that went something like this:
Photographer: "Tell your worker there to look busy. I need photos for the article."
Manager: "What do you want him to do?"
Photographer: "I don't know! What does that machine do over there?"
Manager: "That's our automated steel blaster."
Photographer: "That sounds important. Have your guy go over there and operate it."
Manager: "But it's fully automated. Everything's set the way it needs to be."
Photographer: "But I need -something-! Just have him stand next to it and look like he's reconfiguring it."
Manager to Technician: "Technician, go over to the panel and look busy."
Technician: "Sir, I don't work on this machine. And there are signs all over it saying 'Do Not Touch!'"
Manager: "I don't care! This American fool needs a photo!"
Technician: "How foolish! The entire system is automated! Did you tell him this?"
Manager: "Of course I did! He didn't listen."
Technician: "What am I supposed to do then?"
Manager: "I don't know! Just go over there and look like you're pushing a button."
Technician: "But I don't want to break the machine! It is a masterpiece!"
Manager: "Fine, fine, just, um, just point at the button with your finger. And touch the button. Yes, yes, that looks convincing."
Technician: "Does it really look like I'm pressing it?"
Manager: "No, you look stupid. But just stay there, like that, alright?"
Technician: "Stupid Americans. No wonder their economy sucks."
Why would the post link to Wired, which reads more like a paen to the photographer?
Instead, go to the photographer's blog directly http://alastairphilipwiper.com... sheesh.
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Maybe it was a bad idea to name it the Flaminia.
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Are they building these ships with plastic? I think not. Then surely it is more like Meccano (or Erector Set to the yanks).
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Is this one big enough to be a real Biblical ARK? Probably still not large enough to carry two of every species, but still fun to calculate how close it would come to that goal. I'm guessing (seat of the pants/armchair calculation) we are roughly about half the way there if we discount things like bacteria, fungi, and viruses (the actual majority of lifeforms on earth). Waste disposal would be one heck of a problem, and with only one window, to shovel it out, yikes!.
Interesting line of thought and kind of true: water gets more dense as you go deeper.
But what if there is a barrier preventing the rock to sink all the way to its neutral buoyancy level ? Call it, I don't know... "the bottom" or something...
If there is one thing to be learned on slashdot, it has to be sarcasm.
They're already cutting steel on one that will handle 1000 more containers than the triple-E's.
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If it floats, it will be neutral because it will displace as much water equal to its own mass. If it sinks, it will displace less water than equal to its own mass.
Only the mass of the object matters if it's inside of the hull of the ship. Shipping 1 ton of feathers is the same as shipping 1 ton of led, at least as far as displacement is concerned.
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The Shell Prelude vessel is larger:
Once complete, the facility will have decks measuring 488 by 74 metres (that's more than 1600 feet long and 243 feet wide).
It is built in Goeje, South Korea, and this will be the largest hull ever sent to sea.
At what point will they learn to downsize these vessels? Will there not be a linux of the shipping world, microscopic ships that deliver one molecule at a time from Asia to Europe?
there's not much going on (unless you count the conspicuous absence of the young leader in recent weeks).
864million bannananas? Come on, put it units I can visualize. How many LoC's?
I'm sorry, but something about that just sets my teeth on edge. Reminds me of old Soviet propaganda newsreels. I refuse to believe all 46,000 employees at the shipyard are smiling all the time...and if they are, something's seriously wrong. Unless he was there at 4:20
I also have a hard time believing someone named their son Alastair Philip Wiper, but the world is a strange place.
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Is that during or after daylight savings time?
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So... there are Imperial units and even banana units, but still no metric units?!? Sure, I can roughly work the specs out in my head, and call me lazy, but it would be so much nicer if one person did it once when submitting the summary.
According to this there are only three (yes, 3) countries left in the world that don't use metric units: US, Myanmar and Liberia. ie. Lots of slashdotters around the world who won't be used to imperial.
Please, could we make an unwritten rule for /. that metric units are always included? Don't need to replace the imperial values, just put the metric values in brackets.
So does an airliner weight more when the housefly inside is airborne than it does when the fly has landed inside the plane?
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I see two cases.
1. The object floats on top of the water, and displaces it's weight in water and the water level remains the same.
2. The object sinks below the surface of the water and displaces it's *volume* of water and the water level goes down.
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Unfortunately, Maersk changed their corporate blue color before ordering these ships. Which means that the Lego color palette lost an interesting blue, as the new Maersk is essentially regular Lego light blue. The Lego EEE model is therefore a non-event. Curse you, Maersk. Can't you take the needs of Lego fans into account when making important decisions like this?
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I was expecting a tour of the ship from someone who knew it inside and out – instead I was just told “here it is – off you go!”. “Er OK do you have a map?”. “No. The engine is that way, the bridge is that way. Have fun, and make sure you aren’t on board in 5 hours because the ship will be leaving for Russia.” So off I went
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What do you mean? African or European daylight savings time?
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Assume a spherical man.
21,200 gallons per day @19knots ~= 46.5gallons/nautical mile or .000042 gallons per ton/mile which is about the most fuel efficient way to transport something ever invented.
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Not sure if it makes a difference even if we have an object that is marginally denser than water at surface level. We're still only displacing our volume.
Interesting line of thought and kind of true: water gets more dense as you go deeper.
Pressure increases with depth, density not so much. Water's an incompressible fluid.
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Well, since it could travel via Arizona, it might be neither. Or maybe both?
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Neither, since there is no daylight saving s time.
What a neat ship design!
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