The giant boxship is the company’s new flagship and world’s biggest containership flying the French flag. It is also the ship with the longest name in the world.
The inauguration ceremony was led by the French Ministry of Economy Bruno Le Maire and French Minister of Transport Elisabeth Borne.
The colossal ship was delivered to CMA CGM in January this year and entered into service in February 2018 on the French Asia Line 1 (FAL 1 service), the longest sea route in the world which connects Asia to Northern Europe.
The ship is 400 meter long and 59 meter wide, which means that it is longer than four football fields and bigger than The Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower.
The ship features a ballast water treatment system, Becker Twisted Fin improving the propeller’s performance, and helping reduce energy consumption, as well as a new-generation engine that reduces oil consumption by around 25% and fuel consumption for a 3% average reduction of CO2 emissions, as explained by CMA CGM.
CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery is one of the three 20,600 TEU-containerships ordered en bloc from Hanjin Subic in 2015. One more ship from the series, CMA CGM Louis Bleriot remains to be delivered by the end of the year.
CMA CGM的20,600 TEU集裝箱船CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery今天在法國Le Havre港落成。
巨型船隻是該公司的新旗艦，也是世界上最大的集裝箱船，懸掛著法國國旗。它也是世界上名字最長的船。
就職典禮由法國經濟部Bruno Le Maire和法國運輸部長Elisabeth Borne領導。
這艘巨型船於今年1月交付給CMA CGM，並於2018年2月在法國亞洲1號線（FAL 1號航線）投入使用，這是世界上連接亞洲和北歐的最長航線。
這艘船長400米，寬59米，這意味著它比四個足球場長，比帝國大廈和艾菲爾鐵塔還要大。
該船配備了壓載水處理系統，後尾螺旋鰭提高了螺旋槳的性能，有助於降低能耗，以及新一代發動機，可將油耗降低約25％，燃油消耗量平均降低3％排放，如CMA CGM所解釋。
CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery是2015年Hanjin Subic整體訂購的三艘20,600 TEU集裝箱船之一.CMA CGM Louis Bleriot系列中還有一艘船將於今年年底交付。
Information source: World Maritime News Staff; Image Courtesy: CMA CGM
