What a ship....no wonder "made in China" is displacing North American goods bigtime with this floating continent transporting the goods in 4 days no less!!!








That is some huge ship - and 31 knots. Wal-Mart & China will be the death of The North American Manufacturing Companies.


This is how Wal-Mart gets all its stuff from China:

15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew-size for a ship

Longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a complement of 5,000 men and
Officers.

Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it was NOT designed for
The Panama or Suez Canal . It is strictly transpacific. Check out the
Cruise speed: 31 knots means the goods arrive 4 days before the typical
Container ship (18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run. So this
Behemoth is hugely competitive carrying perishable goods.

This ship was built in three, or perhaps as many as five sections. The

Sections floated together and then were welded. The ship is named

Emma Maersk. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building

And has 11 crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.


Additional info:

Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP) Cruise Speed - 31
Knots, Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006 Construction cost - US
$145,000,000+
Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and
Saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year

EDITORS COMMENT: The Port of L.A. has been expecting (and 'anticipating') these giant ships and has dredged out it's entry channels for the bigger/deeper draft super-ships!!

WOW!!!!! look at the yarddogs with trailers next to it. thats a monster for sure.

HOLY CRAP! I bet they wish they wouldn't have made it that big right now, LOL.

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holy cow! I try hard to buy American but that is almost imposiable.....no more than wht I would buy in a year it would not fill up one container.....and think them containers float in there alll the time.....

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sumthig you may not know...15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars....


oh! and lets not forget tat the American taxpayers are paying over $9 billion in hidden taxes to clean the fish from ballast tanks of these ships.

And the funny part is tat the turnips in D. C. want you and I to go green on our tax dollar....do you think tat if the world tax those ships up their ### like the turnips in D. C. have done to the American people...tat all those so-call cheap items would be cheap...i think not.

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Something sounds fishy here... So I started googling around...

Emma is an impressive ship.

I think 4 days to China is way to fast.
The MAX. ship speed of Emma is listed elsewhere at 25 knots or in excess of. Avg speed in transit would NOT be the top speed.

25 knots = 28.7 mph
31 knots = 35.6 mph

Assuming 24 hours in a day, moving 35.6 MPH every second of travel = 3,417.6 miles distance travelled.

Yokohama, Japan (Toyko Bay, NOT China, which is further east) to San Francisco is 4,536 miles according to a National Geographic map, so in 4 days of perfect sailing conditions, Emma is still at sea.

At 25 knots max as listed in specifications, that's 2,755 miles
and at a more leisurely, fuel efficient, and realistic AVG speed of 18 knots over 96 hours that's 1,728 miles, not even to Hawaii (coming from the far east).
(speaking of fuel, Emma controversially burns bunker fuel which is nearly the inverse of being "green". )

To travel 4536 miles in 96 hours, Emma would need to have and AVERAGE Speed of 47.3 MPH. That's full throttle for a lot of bowriders.
BUSTED!

Also, I don't see any cranes ON the deck of Emma, those cranes in the photo are attached to the sea wall of the port. It's common for container ships to rely on port based cranes for loading.

Owned by Danish, Emma is not owned by Wal-Mart so I think it's safe to assume that goods in the containers are bound for many places other than "Wal-Mart" and while we do have a trade deficit, I'm sure we frequently ship things back to China. (mostly crap we don't want, like plastic scrap, waste paper, waste electronics, scrap metal...) In 2006, the BBC reported that it's main route would be to Europe.

The basic errors of the original post in this forum is an example of why we need MORE science and math teaching in school and less reliance on Fox News.

Another link showing speed and discussing emissions.

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