Explorer-class container ship
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The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365 metres (1,197 ft 6 in) long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 metres (1,299 ft 3 in) and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Triple E class. Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.
The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.
Ships
There exist four different ship types within the Explorer class.
| No. | Ship | Yard number | IMO number | Delivery | Status | ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (13830 TEU) | ||||||
| 1 | CMA CGM Christophe Colomb | 4156 | 9453559 | 10 November 2009 | in service | |
| 2 | CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci | 4157 | 9454395 | 21 July 2010 | in service | |
| 3 | CMA CGM Corte Real | 4158 | 9454400 | 16 August 2010 | in service | |
| 4 | CMA CGM Lapérouse | 4159 | 9454412 | 10 September 2010 | in service | |
| 5 | CMA CGM Magellan | 4160 | 9454424 | 28 September 2010 | in service | |
| Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (16020 TEU) | ||||||
| 6 | CMA CGM Marco Polo | 4161 | 9454436 | 5 November 2012 | in service | |
| 7 | CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt | 4162 | 9454448 | 16 April 2013 | in service | |
| 8 | CMA CGM Jules Verne | 4163 | 9454450 | 30 April 2013 | in service | |
| Samsung Heavy Industries (17722 TEU) | ||||||
| 9 | CMA CGM Kerguelen | 2092 | 9702132 | 31 March 2015 | in service | |
| 10 | CMA CGM Georg Forster | 2093 | 9702144 | 2 June 2015 | in service | |
| 11 | CMA CGM Bougainville | 2094 | 9702156 | 25 August 2015 | in service | |
| Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industries (17859 TEU) | ||||||
| 12 | CMA CGM Zheng He | H6001 | 9706906 | 11 September 2015 | in service | |
| 13 | CMA CGM Vasco de Gama | H6002 | 9706889 | 27 July 2015 | in service | |
| 14 | CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin | H6003 | 9706891 | 4 December 2015 | in service |