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A cargo ship longer than the Empire State Building just arrived in LA
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:52 am
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:52 am
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The CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is longer than the Empire State Building is tall, dwarfs the largest aircraft carrier in the US Navy, and can carry the volume of 235 Olympic swimming pools. And for the first time, the vast vessel has docked at the Port of Los Angeles, making it the largest container ship to ever reach the United States.
The cargo ship arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, the first part of a multi-stage trip along the US west coast that will also see it stop in Oakland on December 31st. Set against the Port of Los Angeles' huge cranes, a time-lapse video of the vessel arriving for the first time in the US almost makes it look normal in scale, but compared to the largest boats on the sea, the Benjamin Franklin is a monster. Its deck is 1,300 feet from prow to stern — longer than than three football fields — and it can lug 18,000 containers across the world's oceans, requiring an engine that puts out as much thrust as 11 Boeing 747-400 engines.
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Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:54 am to saintforlife
quote:Be advised a giant ape has been seen climbing along the starboard side
A cargo ship longer than the Empire State Building just arrived
Posted on 12/30/15 at 2:54 am to saintforlife
Cool - just keep the port workers off strike long enough so the intermodal truckers can get their trailers and leave. 
Posted on 12/30/15 at 3:18 am to saintforlife
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just arrived in LA
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18,000 containers
Probably full of shite from China.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 3:28 am to boddagetta
Sad but probably true.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 4:11 am to saintforlife
That's cool stuff, I've been to that port and seen some of those big cargo ships and it dwarfs them
Posted on 12/30/15 at 4:15 am to saintforlife
quote:holy hell
18,000 containers
Posted on 12/30/15 at 5:22 am to Bama and Beer
Olympic size pools and football fields. The go to barometer for size comparison
Posted on 12/30/15 at 5:43 am to saintforlife
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:03 am to meeple
I love the "car" comparison there
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:46 am to boddagetta
It's crazy that China can manufacture and ship goods cheaper than they can be manufactured at home.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:49 am to Tiger Vision
Not really that crazy when you look at raw material cost and labor/unions
Posted on 12/30/15 at 6:52 am to saintforlife
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"The question keeps coming back on whether U.S. port infrastructure is actually ready for this size of vessels," Marc Bourdon, president of CMA CGM American operations, told the Press-Telegram. "Well, they are not exactly quite ready yet. Some ports are ready. The reality is a ship like this will not be able to get deployed on a permanent basis until more ports are ready to accommodate them."
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Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:06 am to GetCocky11
A company I was with back in the day used to import some stuff from Taiwan. It would cost $4500 to get it from Taiwan to Atlanta.
We actually seriously studied having the components shipped and then assembling them here. We couldn't remotely get close to competitive on price doing it that way.
I'm not sure what the solution is but it is what it is.
We actually seriously studied having the components shipped and then assembling them here. We couldn't remotely get close to competitive on price doing it that way.
I'm not sure what the solution is but it is what it is.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:19 am to bamarep
The programming to load the containers on there to set up the offloading must be really interesting.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:20 am to saintforlife
Its named after a racist Ben Franklin, it must be removed immediately.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:23 am to boddagetta
Be advised a giant ape has been seen climbing along the starboard side
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Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:31 am to saintforlife
Damn and to think 10,000 TEU container ships were considered large when i was in Nav Arch school that is a massive ship.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:41 am to saintforlife
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arrived in LA
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the Port of Los Angeles
Come on man! On a Louisiana based board?
I was hoping I could walk out to the river to see this thing.
Posted on 12/30/15 at 7:46 am to GetCocky11
The ports will capitulate because this ship is the next generation. Might take some time but the ports won't want to lose the revenue.
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