Ship Photos of the Day – CMA CGM Bougainville, Largest Ship Sailing Under the French Flag
CMA CGM Group this week inaugurated the CMA CGM Bougainville, now the most important ship crusing beneath the French flag.
The inauguration came about Tuesday, October sixth by French President François Hollande in Le Havre, France.
The CMA CGM Bougainville is deployed on the CMA CGM’s French Asia Line (FAL) between Europe and Asia. The vessel is the a part of 6 new containerships with a capability to hold 18,000 TEU that can enter the CMA CGM fleet in 2015, and second vessel within the sequence to sail beneath the French flag.
TheCMA CGM Bougainville was constructed at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea and measure 398 meters lengthy by 54 meters broad.
The ship is the additionally first on this planet to be outfitted with Traxens know-how, offering real-time container monitoring by “transforming containers into smart connected objects.”
All pictures courtesy CMA CGM Group
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