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HHI has completed the construction of the portacontainer larger of the world
the "CSCL Globe" of the Chinese shipowning group Lowers Shipping, has a 19.000 ability to teu
November 18, 2014
the South Korean group Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. (HHI), world leader in the field of the shipbuilding, has announced the completion and the baptism of the portacontainer larger of the world. New CSCL Globe, of the Chinese shipowning group Lowers Shipping, is before a series of a five tidy ships year and means make that they have in fact 19.000 a unitary ability to teu (inforMARE of 6 May 2013).
the CSCL Globe is long 400,0 meters and wide 58,6 meters. The portacontenitori will be delivered within this month and will be employed by China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) in the services that connect Asia with Europe.
HHI has emphasized that, thanks to the advance systems of control of the efficiency of the consumption of the fuel installed on the ship, the new portacontainer will less consume 20% of fuel in for container teu respect to a portacontainer of the single ability to 10,000 teu.
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