Sally Maersk too small

Bregalad · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject: Sally Maersk too small

Hi

It its known by many that APM's S serie are more then 6600 teu, but only a few know the how much more.

Today I read a newsbulletin saying that marketinsiders estimate that the S serie is 8000 teu purhaps more.

Should the capacity in POC be the official or the estimated?
The actual number is not available.

Canceldiet · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Hi, could the professional sailors and related ones around here please be so kind not to use some cryptical acronyms (abbreviations) or at least plaese be so kind to explain them? There are also many non-professionals among us.

Regards,

Canceldiet

Bregalad · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:13 am Post subject:

APM is the owner of Sally Maersk.
S serie are vessels like Sally Maersk, 22 in all.

And i am in textiles!

IcePep · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject: Sally Maersk too small

bregalad
in your poll about ships i'm a bit surprised that an article in a danish newspaper 2003-10-07 has slipped your attetion
there it´s stated that Samsung Heavy Industries for costumer canadian shippingfim Seaspan Container Line has contracted for a containervessel to be delivered in the near future with a capacity of 9.500 TEU's
and though APM and OSS are claming that the S-serie takes 6.600 TEU's it´s no secret that unofficial numbers range up to 8.000
so i´ll state that big container vessels 8.000 to 10.000 TEU's are about to come before the year 2006
but again it would be marvelous to have a wider varity of general friegther and bulk carriers for years after 1985 in POC, kindly give it a thought RDK for implementation in furture updates for this GREAT game

Bregalad · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject:

My post was only regarding Sally Maersk, in the game and officially it can hold 6600 teu.
Other vessels i maybe larger or smaller, but since it is factual that Sally Maersk can hold more then 6600 teu then why don't RDK use a number that more likely to be true.

Sorry you completely misunderstood me.

IcePep · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: Sally Maersk too small

hi bregalad
i didn´t completely Embarassed

misunderstand you, but used the opportunity to point to some trends in development,
however - imagine if it was Confused

possible, that official numbers of TEU's could be "prolonged/expanded" with 20%, as long as you kept within the DWT limitations
(20% appoximatly comes by dividing 8000 with 6.600)
then a Sally could take 7920 TEU's if only within limits of DWT
could that be a idea Idea

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