On Saturday, 15 February 2014 5:51 PM kamlesh kurani <kamleshkurani@hotmail.com> wrote:
Read to the end.................................................
Have a good read of this right to the end...
See the editorial under the last picture. That says it all!The Emma Maersk, part of a Danish shipping line, is shown in the photos below.
What a ship....no wonder 'Made in China ' is displacing North American made goods big time. This monster transports goods across the Pacific in just 5 days!! Another two will soon be commissioned..
These ships were commissioned by Wal-Mart to get their imported
goods from China ..... They hold an incredible 15,000 containers andhave a 207 foot deck beam!! The full crew is just 13 people on a shiplonger than a US Aircraft Carrier which has a crew of 5,000. With its207' beam it is too big to fit through the Panama or Suez Canals ..........
It is strictly transpacific. Cruise speed: 31 knots.
The goods arrive four days before the typical container ship(18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run. 91% of Wal-Mart productsare made in China. So this behemoth is hugely competitive evenwhen carrying perishable goods. The ship was built in five sections.The sections are floated together and then welded. The commandbridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigsthat can operate simultaneously unloading the entire ship in less than two hours.
Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 knots
Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)
Crew - 13 people!
First trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+
Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistancenoted that all of these containers are shipped back to China, EMPTY!
Yep, that's right. We send nothing back on these ships.
What does that tell you about the current financial state of the west in crisis?
So folks, just keep on buying those imported goods (mostly gadgets)until you run out of money. Then you may wonder what the cause ofunemployment (maybe even your job) in the U..S, UK, Canada andeven in Australia????
Enough said!!!
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