slow boat from china

[bassracr]

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SHIP FROM CHINA - The Emma Maersk


What a ship....no wonder 'Made in China' is displacing North American goods big time with this floating continent transporting goods across the Pacific in 4 days no less!!!





This is how Wal-Mart gets all it's stuff from China . Get a load of this ship!
15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew-size: 13 people for a ship longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a crew of 5,000 men and officers.
Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it cannot fit through the Panama or Suez Canals . It is strictly transpacific. Check out the cruise speed: 31 knots means the goods arrive 4 days before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run. So this behemoth is hugely competitive when carrying perishable goods.

This ship was built in five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.




Additional info:

Country of origin - Denmark

Length - 1,302 ft

Width - 207 ft

Net cargo - 123,200 tons

Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)

Cruise Speed - 31 knots

Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3)

Crew - 13 people

First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006

Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year
































Editorial Comment! A recent documentary in late March on the History Channel, noted that most all of these containers are shipped back to China, EMPTY … yep you heard it right. We send nothing back on most of these ships. What does that tell you about the current Financial State of this country?

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[Dave S]

We be sending them a bunch of BS and soon they will find out. Just like the old days when the USA sent them phony silver dollars. They got pissed.... this time around they have a better army than USA. We are led buy Morons and time is running. No smilly faces.

[flabum1017]

From this page about the engine "one large MFD"

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/emma-maersk-engine/

[mr fun]

probably 90% of our biz right now is frozen fish and shrimp form over there. and your right we are exporting nothing but scrap now, computers, cars, and thats about it. the whole industry is stagnate. guess Ill be looking for a welfare check from B Hussain soon. change,

[1BadAction]

probably 90% of our biz right now is frozen fish and shrimp form over there.

you don't know how f'n pissed I get when I go to the store and all the seafood is from china. what the hell? we live in one of the best fisheries in the country, yet the seafood is from china. i think its GD poison, and I refuse to eat it.

[jphii]

Funny, FL gets nip seafood and we get local.

[1BadAction]

Funny, FL gets nip seafood and we get local.

don't worry, you'll get it soon too.

its not really that bad tho, gives me an excuse to take home what I catch, which is where i happen to be heading right now. some sandfleas with the dip net and a few cast net throws and I'll have all the bait it takes to catch enough fish for the week.

[Mark75H]

Funny, FL gets nip seafood and we get local.

Almost all the frozen catfish in your local grocery store is from China

[jphii]

Almost all the frozen catfish in your local grocery store is from China

No, It's not. It is farm raised right here in eastern NC. And if you shop at Annapolis od Cameron's Seafood Market, you get it from the same place I do.

[Mark75H]

At your local fish market, yes the catfish is local. At the chain supermarket ... you better check again.

At Annapolis's most popular local seafood joint (3 locations & always jumpin') Annapolis Seafood, they have both, but the China section is bigger and cheaper. Guess which one people buy?

[jphii]

Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, and Piggly Wiggly are not local markets. And they buy from Carolina Classics.

[mr fun]

Funny, FL gets nip seafood and we get local.

I deliver to commercial freezers the size of a 4-5 football fields, resturant packaging. all the shrimp for the winn dixie stores goes thru a place here called safe harbor seafood, right next to the shrimpboat fleet in mayport fla, guess what, it all comes in in containers and out to W/D. the locals can't compete cost wise. I buy all our FRESH fish and shrimp from them, the place is as clean as a hospital. boats come right to his door. fun out some other interesting facts about maersk, the largest shipping co in the world, they own rail roads grocery stores shipyards tugboats and it's all owned by 1 man, A. P. Moller of denmark, where most of all shipping began back in the days when sailing ships went to the orient for spices and breadfruit.

[Steve 1]

I deliver to commercial freezers the size of a 4-5 football fields, resturant packaging. all the shrimp for the winn dixie stores goes the a place here called safe harbor seafood, right next to the shrimpboat fleet in mayport fla, guess what, it all comes in in containers and out to W/D. the locals can't compete cost wise. I buy all our fresh fish and shrimp from them, the place is as clean as a hospital. boats come right to his door. fun out

Tough Choice; do I want my seafood laced with Lead ,Arsenic ,PCB’s and marinated in Melamine or still moving fresh caught in US water??

[Mark75H]

1 man, A. P. Moller of denmark, where most of all shipping began back in the days when sailing ships went to the orient for spices and breadfruit.

And his Viking ancestors plundered it where ever they found it

My local Whole Foods doesn't have any US catfish and neither does my local Trader Joes

[jphii]

HERE and HERE are most of the stores that Carolina Classics supplies.