In 1996, 6400 TEU Regina Maersk was built. The trend of size increase happened rapidly in this duration. The fourth generation began in 1988, and President Truman gained the title of the biggest containership as she could load 4,500 TEUs. It was only 3 years later, when larger container liner American New York was built. In 1981, Frankfurt Express was the first Panamax box ship with capacity of 3,050 TEUs. This stage saw the limit of Panama Canal to be reached.
The third containership generation began from 1980. In 1972, Hamburg Express broke the record and became the world's largest container ship at the time. The second generation began when cellular system was equipped to improve the productivity of cargo handling process.Įncounter Bay and her sisters Discovery Bay, Moreton Bay, Botany Bay were built in 1968/1969 took over the champion title by capacity of 1,530 TEUs.
The largest ships in the first generation were 736 TEU Weser Express and her sister Elbe Express, built in 1968. She was definitely the largest container ship in the world at that time.Ĭonverted cargo vessels and tankers like Ideal-X were typical for the first generation of containership. In that way, the largest ships can carry the most containers, or to say it another way, have the largest capacity.įirst generation In 1956, Ideal-X as the pioneer in container carriage could only load 58 modified containers. Usually, people judge the scale of a container ship based on her capacity, which is the number of containers she can carry. Since Ideal X, the first container ship set sail in 1956, the sizes and capacity of container vessel category has developed dramatically to take advantage of economy of scale. Well, you’ll find the answer in this article. From history perspective, the question is what was the largest in the past, before Marco Polo and Emma Maersk had been built (1996).
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