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Container ship APL Southampton heads for city
3:40pm Tuesday 29th May 2012 in Shipping
By Keith Hamilton, Shipping & Heritage Reporter
Container ship APL Southampton heads for city
A new container ship, APL Southampton – the first vessel in her class – is due to arrive in the port after which she is named tomorrow (Wednesday).
APL Southampton, making her maiden call, is the second container vessel in service to carry the city’s name and is the company’s largest, as well as most environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient, ship.
The vessel is fitted with a ballast water treatment system and electronically-controlled main engine, signalling a new era of sustainable ships for APL’s fleet.
Ships carry ballast water to ensure stability and reduce stresses on the hull.
However, problems can arise when the discharge of ballast water from vessels transfers organisms between different marine ecosystems, threatening ecological balance and global biodiversity.
Large enough to accommodate up to 10,700 container units, APL Southampton is on her initial voyage after being handed over by Korean shipbuilder Daewoo shipping & Marine Engineering.
To mark the ship’s visit to Southampton a commemorative plaque will be presented by the city’s mayor, Councillor Derek Burke, to the captain.
The ship is operated by APL, part of the G6 shipping alliance.
APL Southampton’s arrival in the city comes as the company has been awarded the environment Protection Award for the second time in two years.
It follows APL’s announcement it was on course to reduce a key carbon exhaust measure by 30 per cent by 2015 from its global shipping operations.
Comments(10)
Huey
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4:15pm Tue 29 May 12
phil maccavity
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5:05pm Tue 29 May 12
Southy has said consistently that big ships are unable to enter Southampton Port and the EC (or some other regulatory body) has decreed that, henceforth, Southampton will only handle feeder container ships.
Fatty x Ford Worker
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5:39pm Tue 29 May 12
rightway
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6:01pm Tue 29 May 12
X Old Bill
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8:02pm Tue 29 May 12
She is flagged in Singapore.
Currently en route from Le Havre - ETA 00:01UTC
phil maccavity
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9:25pm Tue 29 May 12
rightway wrote:Its a bad time for container shipping at the moment
Great News, more employment for third world seaman (that means cheap labour, higher profits)
Most of the lines are making heavy losses
southy
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10:51am Wed 30 May 12
phil maccavity wrote:Learn the sizes of ships will you phil.
Must be a mistake
Southy has said consistently that big ships are unable to enter Southampton Port and the EC (or some other regulatory body) has decreed that, henceforth, Southampton will only handle feeder container ships.
Its just a large ship and not the Largest ship, the World Largest ships will not call in to southampton they will not get insurence cover to enter Southampton water.
The EU ruling is not in affect yet other things as to be compleated first, like the new rail line from China to Germany.
southy
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10:56am Wed 30 May 12
phil maccavity wrote:And that is with cheap under-paid Slave Labour and they still can not compet
rightway wrote:Its a bad time for container shipping at the moment
Great News, more employment for third world seaman (that means cheap labour, higher profits)
Most of the lines are making heavy losses
phil maccavity
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6:31pm Thu 31 May 12
southy wrote:You said that 'large' ships would have to by pass Southampton
phil maccavity wrote:Learn the sizes of ships will you phil.
Must be a mistake
Southy has said consistently that big ships are unable to enter Southampton Port and the EC (or some other regulatory body) has decreed that, henceforth, Southampton will only handle feeder container ships.
Its just a large ship and not the Largest ship, the World Largest ships will not call in to southampton they will not get insurence cover to enter Southampton water.
The EU ruling is not in affect yet other things as to be compleated first, like the new rail line from China to Germany.
This is officially a 'large ship' and is in port so this blows quite a big hole in your argument
As someone who knows about marine insurance (P&I cover for the uninitiated) what you say about vessel insurance is another figment of your fertile imagination.
You should really try to learn more about shipping matters!!
Just another reader says...
3:58pm Tue 29 May 12