River Thames: CMA CGM Rundale
A container ship, CMA CGM Rundale, most of the way up Gravesend Reach on the River Thames and imminently arriving at Tilbury Docks, having sailed from TeesPort, which is on the River Tees, in case you thought otherwise. It's been here before but this is my first time seeing it.
It's interesting (to me...) as it's a new shape, apart from being a new ship (built/completed in 2024 by Hyundai); it also has green cred as it's powered by Liquified Natural Gas (ordinary natural gas used to be popular with hippies, didn't it ?). I don't know if LNG Powered is a plus point; it's supposed to be lass harmful than other fuels.
More interesting stuff: this is apparently a 'feeder' ship meaning it takes containers (TEUs ot Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) from/to bigger ships. According to Wikipedia there are seven sizes of feeder ship and a feeder ship that carries less than 3000 TEUs (!) is a feeder - and on CMA CGM's own site Rundale is listed as having "nominal TEUs" of 2126 and "TEUs 14th" of 1572. Who knows ! Not me !
It's 204.29 metres long and 29.6 wide.
The MSC Irina is 399.9 metres long and 61.33 wide and it can carry 24,346 TEU: quite a lot.
The tug, Svitzer Bootle, is just passing.
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River Thames: CMA CGM Rundale
A container ship, CMA CGM Rundale, most of the way up Gravesend Reach on the River Thames and imminently arriving at Tilbury Docks, having sailed from TeesPort, which is on the River Tees, in case you thought otherwise. It's been here before but this is my first time seeing it.
It's interesting (to me...) as it's a new shape, apart from being a new ship (built/completed in 2024 by Hyundai); it also has green cred as it's powered by Liquified Natural Gas (ordinary natural gas used to be popular with hippies, didn't it ?). I don't know if LNG Powered is a plus point; it's supposed to be lass harmful than other fuels.
More interesting stuff: this is apparently a 'feeder' ship meaning it takes containers (TEUs ot Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) from/to bigger ships. According to Wikipedia there are seven sizes of feeder ship and a feeder ship that carries less than 3000 TEUs (!) is a feeder - and on CMA CGM's own site Rundale is listed as having "nominal TEUs" of 2126 and "TEUs 14th" of 1572. Who knows ! Not me !
It's 204.29 metres long and 29.6 wide.
The MSC Irina is 399.9 metres long and 61.33 wide and it can carry 24,346 TEU: quite a lot.
The tug, Svitzer Bootle, is just passing.
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