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CMA CGM shipping container. In 2023, CMA CGM's fleet included: 593 vessels; 4,500,000 container TEUs; 600,000 reefer container TEUs; The fleet has 200 maritime services and calls at more than 420 ports in 160 countries. There are 521 commercial ports in the world at the moment.
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code ( SCAC) is a privately controlled US code used to identify vessel operating common carriers (VOCC). It is typically two to four letters long. The National Motor Freight Traffic Association developed the SCAC code in the 1960s to help road transport companies computerize data and records. [1]
The average vessel size for U.S. port calls as of 2015 is less than 6000 TEU. However recently in 2016, container ships sizing from 12,000-14,000 TEU have been calling to U.S. ports in California. Notably, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is the largest vessel to ever call to a U.S port. The Federal Maritime Commission has recognized the trend in ...
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
The boxship CMA CGM Bougainville together with her five sister-vessels is the flagship for the French container line CMA CGM. The ship has overall length of 398 m (1,306 ft), width of 54 m (177 ft) and summer draft of 16.1 m (53 ft). The deadweight of the container carrier is 185,000 DWT, while the gross tonnage is 175,000 GT.
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A, branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Switzerland since 1978. [5] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, [6] controlling about 19.7 ...
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.
CMA CGM Lapérouse is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is named after French naval officer and explorer Lapérouse . Delivered in September 2010, [3] it has a capacity of 13,800 TEU .