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CMA CGM CONTAINER SHIP MODEL
The largest container ship docked in the U.S.A.
Named after one of the Founding Fathers of the US,
Benjamin Franklin was delivered to its owner in December
2015. The CMA CGM container ship was officially launched and christened
at Long Beach port in California in February 2016, and
became the biggest container ship ever to call the US
port.
The
arrival at the Port
of Long Beach marked the first time a ship of this size
had been used in North America.
CMA CGM
Benjamin Franklin is an
Explorer-class container ship. It is 18,000 TEU
and about a third larger than the biggest container
ships that typically visit the deep water ports of
southern California. The vessel’s maximum load capacity
is up to 18,000 containers, including 1,500 reefer
containers, representing the volume of 235 Olympic pools
of approximately 590,000m³. The massive container ship
requires a crew of 26 to operate.
CMA CGM Benjamin
Franklin's power is
as powerful as 900 Ford Focus cars combined and has a thrust of
21kt, which is equivalent to that of 11 Boeing 747-400
engines. The main engine is fitted with an exhaust bypass system
for slow-steaming and improves energy efficiency at low
loads, thus reducing the fuel consumption.
CMA CGM container ship’s optimized
hull design improves the vessel’s propulsion in the
water. The ship’s layout allows positioning of fuel
tanks below the castle. The double hull design protects
the fuel tanks.
CMA's design features
a unique higher castle located at its front, enabling it
to optimize the space while providing improved
visibility from the bridge and a better torsion
resistance (Torsion is caused by forces which do not
pass through the sheer center line axis of a ship’s
hull cross section. Torsion basically tends to twist the
vessel just like how we rinse a cloth by twisting it.)
The
twisted leading-edge rudder technology improves the
container ship's hydrodynamics, and reduces fuel consumption and
CO2 emissions.
The CMA container ship is equipped with an ballast water
treatment system which directly treats the ballast
water when it is pumped into the vessel and again during
ballasting operations. The treated water is then
UV-filtered to completely remove any living organisms,
preventing any foreign organisms, which in general are
present in the ballast water, to enter the sea, thus
protecting the marine environment.
This primarily wood
CMA CGM
Benjamin Franklin container
ship
model is
45" long x
10" tall x 7" wide $3,950  Shipping
and insurance in the contiguous USA included. Other
places: $500 flat rate. The model with all blue
containers is in stock and can
be ship within 5 business days. This version portrays
the container ship when it made history.
With 18,000 TEU she was the largest vessel to
ever call the United States of America.
On February 19th, 2016, she
was christened in the presence of CMA CGM founder
and CEO Jacques
R. Saadé in
the port of Long Beach.
If you want the
containers to have different colors, we can paint
them for you and the model can be shipped within 10
business days. This option is $200 extra.
Note that this container
ship model is produced and sold exclusively by
ModelShipMaster.com. There are several web sites that
use our photos without permission. The
piratical images are too small for
viewers to see our embedded brand on it--a common piracy
tactic. No commercial entities can produce a CMA CGM model
nearly as accurate and beautiful as ours.
Other ship, different size? Just let us know by clicking
on this link: Commissioning. The
process will be easy and stress free.
Learn more about the
Benjamin
Franklin container ship here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA_CGM_Benjamin_Franklin
Learn more about
Explorer-class container ship model here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer-class_container_ship |
