Wednesday 30 December 2015

WORLD'S BIGGEST CONTAINER,CRUISE & TANKER SHIP

There are many ships travels in each day many of them are container ships ,cruise ships and tanker ships.Container ships is used for transfer any thing , cruise ships are used for traveling one place to another place and last tanker ships used for transfer oil and gas.

1. CONTAINER SHIP:

Emma maersk is the largest container ship in the world.

Emma is the first container ship E-class of eight owned by the A.P. Moller-Maersk group.
Odense steel shipyard Ltd. ship the worlds largest ship in denmark.

Emma mearsk starts its service in 31 august,2006.

The length of this ship is 397 m (1,302 ft.).

Speed of this ship is 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h ; 29.3 mph).

Capacity of this largest container ship is 14,770+ TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) of which 1,000 TEU are refrigerated container.

In this ship there is worlds largest single diesel engine, weight of this engine is 2,300 tonnes which generate 109,000 horsepower(81 MW) when burning 3,600 US gallons (14,000 l) of heavy fuel oil per hour.



2. CRUISE SHIP:

Allure of the sea is the worlds largest passenger ship. It is just five centimeters longer then its older sister oasis of the sea.

Royal caribbean cruises is the operator and owner of this ship.

Cost of this ship US $1.2 billion and it was built by STX europe turku shipyard, Finland.

Length of this is 362 m(1,187 ft.).

In this ship there are 16 passenger decks.

Speed of this ship is 22.6 knots (41.9 km/h ; 26.0 mph).

In this ship there are 5,400 passenger capacity and maximum capacity of this ship is 6,296 passengers.



3. TANKER SHIP:

Seawise was the worlds lagest oil tanker ship but now it was broken ,its serves between 1979-2009.

Length of this ship was 458.45m (1,504.10 ft) highest recorded.

Speed of this ship was 16 knots (30 km/h ; 18 mph).

Fully laden her displacement was 657,019 tonnes , the heaviest ship of any kind.

She had 46 tanks, 31,541 square meters of deck space.


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