Explorer-class container ship
The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365 metres (1,197 ft 6 in) long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 metres (1,299 ft 3 in) and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Triple E class. Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.
CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China |
| Operators | CMA CGM |
| Built | 2009– |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Container ship |
| Tonnage | 153,000–175,000 GT |
| Length | 365–396 m (1,197 ft 6 in – 1,299 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 51 m (167 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 16 m (52 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080 kW) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller |
| Speed | 24–25 knots (44–46 km/h; 28–29 mph) |
| Capacity | 13,300–16,020 TEU |
The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.
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