World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Largest Engine Ever

Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by justin66 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @11:31PM (#8661107)

Compares one ship to another, first engine is described in terms of kilowatts and the next in horsepower. Talks about cargo capacity in terms of TEUs (shipping containers, I guess) rather than gross tonnage, which is the way we've always talked about ships forever.

I know nothing about ships but I suspect this is the shipping equivalent of Information Week.

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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by TylerE on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:33AM (#8661331)

TEU = 20ft Equivilant Unit. The traditional 40ft semi-trailer style container is actually 2 TEU.

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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by D_Alex on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:41AM (#8661670)

>Talks about cargo capacity in terms of TEUs (shipping containers, I guess) rather than gross tonnage, which is the way we've always talked about ships forever.

Gross tonnage has little to do with cargo capacity, as it covers weight of hull, machinery, fuel etc. Net tonnage is more relevant, but it is not a good basis for comparing the capacity of different types of cargo ships. TEUs are a good way to compare container ships to each other, so at least in that respect the article is fine.

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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by unwind on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:06AM (#8661729)

I wanted to read the site's "About" page (to figure out if they have some relationship with Maersk) but since it's infinitely high I didn't have the patience to scroll there.

Does nobody care that the concepts "footer" and "infinite scroll" don't mix?

It seems it would fail the most trivial of testing, when every page element isn't even possible to click?! Gaah.

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Re:World’s Largest Containership Also Sets Record for Larges... by joncp on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:12AM (#8661293)

...and the grammar! Ugh!

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