WORLD’S LARGEST BOXSHIP CALLS AT PORT OF LONG BEACH
LONG BEACH - 0/25/04 - Orient Overseas Container Line's OOCL Ningbo - one of the world's two largest containerships - arrived recently on its maiden call at the Port of Long Beach.
The 8,000-TEU ship docked at Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT), a Pier F facility leased by an OOCL subsidiary.
The mammoth OOCL Ningbo is among a new generation of 8,000-twenty-foot-equivalent-unit (TEU) vessels that have leap-frogged a generation of 6,600-TEU ships that made their first calls in Long Beach only five years ago.
Named for the Chinese port city, the ship is the sixth of 12 8,063-TEU "SX-class" vessels that OOCL will take delivery on through 2007 from Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. of South Korea.
Its sister ships, the OOCL Long Beach called in Long Beach last summer, and the OOCL Hamburg made its first call at LBCT in March.
The ship measures 1,056 feet or 323 meters long, nearly the length of four football fields, with a width of 140 feet, wide enough for 17 containers and a draft of 47.5 feet.
The OOCL Ningbo is deployed in OOCL's transpacific service and features a specially designed hull that allows the vessel to consume less low-sulphur fuel, but maintain a high service speed of 25 knots at the same time.
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