Container Ship

[vic mcclymont]

World's largest container ship docks in London.
HMM Agerciras, over 1,300 feet long, 200 feet wide, can carry over 29, 000 teu 20 feet containers.
This was her maiden voyage, China, Korea, Hamburg, London. Average speed 20.0 knots.
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

In all the reports I have read I think you may find it is 23,950 teu containers Vic, known as the 24,000 Class, seven more to be delivered within 12 months, but naturaklly stand to be corrected

[John F Collier]

World's largest container ship docks in London.
HMM Agerciras, over 1,300 feet long, 200 feet wide, can carry over 29, 000 teu 20 feet containers.
This was her maiden voyage, China, Korea, Hamburg, London. Average speed 20.0 knots.
Vic

Hi Vic, I saw her pass here on Sunday morning, absolutely massive, little wonder the ships we knew in the 50s were made redundant.
In the 1700s the world trade with London was so strong that the Thames was likened to "A forest of mast", I think the HMM ALGECIRAS
carried more cargo than the ships that were collectively called a "Forest of mast" on any given day, cheers

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
I saw a pic of the Forrest of masts on the TV show London, been playing here on TV last three weeks. I have a relative who lives in Canary Wharf was telling her I used to scull a dinghy ashore there to drop the blokes off for a pint, many moons ago.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

There has been a very good series on SBS about the history of London.
In one episode they spoke of the river trade with all the various shipping companies and the wharfs they owned, very interesting.
There was a time when there was very little space left for any more.

But these big ships are the future of cargo shipping.
Twice the number of containers with a limited crew number, makes for making more for the shipping companies, nothing changed there.

[John F Collier]

It was the west india docks on the Isle of Dogs in those days, but just a memory now Des, travelling on the Docklands light railway and passing
through Canary Wharf in the evening when all the tall buildings are lit up and the lights are reflecting on the water is a very pretty sight indeed.
Nearby to that site is where Isambard Kingdom Brunel's GREAT EASTERN sailing steamship was built at the Millwall Iron Works, beside the Thames
in 1854. At 692 feet in length she was the largest ship ever built at that time and designed to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia
without the need to refuel, amazing ship for those times, just like the HMM ALGECIRAs is today, I wonder how ships will develop in the next 100
years, cheers.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Stand by for flying containers, or sea worthy ones being towed in a line.
DES

[happy daze john in oz]

With all the crap going on just now about some bloody Virus many of our shop are light on with supplies, nothing coming from China.
Sunday along the bay I noticed 8 ships waiting to berth, maybe the shops will fill again.

Yesterday saw my neighbor who works on the cranes in Port Melbourne, one of a number of companies there that manage the wharfs.
He tells me that because the ships coming in are getting bigger and staying for less time as unloading now is much faster his company is looking for another 40 workers to be made redundant.
The big ships no longer justify large numbers of dock side workers any more.
Our bay was dredged a few years ago to allow for larger ships, well here they come.