Ship Photo of the Day – A Glimpse Into the Unmanned Containership of the Future?
With all this speak about unmanned ships, may this be a glimpse into the way forward for containerships? Let’s hope not.
But critically… pictured right here is the soon-to-be manned MSC Venice, the final in a sequence of six 16,000 TEU containerships for Mediterranean Shipping Company. The vessel is presently beneath development at STX Offshore & Shipbuilding in South Korea, the place the ships are launched with out ahead or aft superstructures – that are put in afterward in the development course of.
At 399 meters lengthy, the MSC Venice and its sister ships are the identical size because the world’s largest 19,224 TEU Oscar-class vessels, however they measure solely 54 meters extensive (versus 59 meters), so can transport far fewer containers.
The 5 sister ships are MSC London, MSC New York, MSC Amsterdam, MSC Istanbul and MSC Hamburg.
The six ships had been ordered in 2012 for US $1.6 billion.
Photo courtesy lappino
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