Talk:Container ship

message: What are the different types of hatchcovers being used in containerships in breakbulks there is a bontoon hatch --61.17.27.53 15 July 2006
: "bontoon hatch" is wrong terminology. The hatch is the opening into the ship's hold which is created by the removal of the hatch cover. On breakbulk ships this cover is made of steel and it has a hollow core. This type of hatch cover is called a "pontoon". Container ships have a much heavier and more substantially built hatch cover. The hatch cover of a container ship may weigh 40 long tons.--69.143.150.67 04:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: what is the mpg  [or km/litre].. or, gallons per mile even, of these things (typical, obviously)
when it comes to this size you measure fuel in kilograms per hour/tons per hour usually. the ship i worked in for an example consumed 14 tons of heavy fuel oil every 24 hours at standard speed, she was a mid sized to small ship though. and as type of cargo and hull size also plays in much it's impossible to say what a typical ship would have.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.133.2.95 (talk) 18:42, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: mpg

message: Does anyone have any information about indusrty building/shipping costs and the cost effectiveness of container ship versus other kinds of shipping?  140.180.166.176 00:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Costs

message: I've deleted the following self-contradictory text from the Risk section.  If the pirates only rob the crew, then the high value of the cargo is not what makes container ships a target for pirates.  And the difficulty of getting the cargo off a container ship would imply that piracy is not a significant risk.  If piracy is a risk, please sort out the text and give a citation.
The great value of merchandise on these vessels makes them a target for hijackers. Well-organized piracy remains a threat in places such as Indonesia. Although pirates usually limit themselves to robbing the crew; mainly due to the difficulty of finding a suitable anchorage where a container ship can be unloaded without being noticed. Even changing the name of the vessel would be difficult as ships are quite distinctive in appearance.
I have also deleted the reference to MSC Napoli in
It has been estimated that container ships lose over 10,000 containers at sea each year. Most go overboard during a storm, but there are some examples of whole ships being lost, as in the MSC Napoli.
It is true that the Napoli was lost.  However, the containers that were lost went overboard in a storm; the ship survived the storm in almost one piece but it was later decided to be beyond economic repair. The rest of the containers were unloaded from the ship in the salvage.  However, using it as an example of a "whole ship" lost in a storm suggests that the ship and the cargo were lost.  Dricherby (talk) 00:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Risk 

message: I find the use of the abbreviation TEU not specific and totally confusing.
The TEU is defined as a 20-ft container equivalent.
Then a ship is defined as 14000 TEU's.  Does this mean that the ship can carry 1400 20-ft containers? Such a ship would be some 1200 m long!
If is some equivalent volume then is it cm or cf?
14000 TEU's should mean 14000 20-ft containers, and not include some nebulous undefined coversion factor
65.5.207.221 (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TEU 

message: The sentences reading "Multimodal Transport will be dealt with in Topic V Unit 6.  We shall also be dealing with Just in Time manufacturing" in the "History" section look like they were copy-pasted straight out of some textbook to me.  That casts doubt on the rest of the paragraph too I expect. 82.6.108.62 (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Adding a copyright problems box. Felgerkarb (talk) 22:18, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Quick googling has found this text verbatim on several other sites. Some look like they are scraping Wikipedia, so I am not sure if they are the original source or not. None of them have any internal reference to a 'Topic V Unit 6' to make me think they are the original source. Felgerkarb (talk) 22:23, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: Perhaps the current modernising trend towards container ships may be mentioned (as set in motion by the Daewoo Triple E ships. Besides MALS/ACES, and heat recovery systems (which can happen trough a steam engine as one the Triple E ships or -perhaps allot better- using a Stirling motor-), the use of a different fuel (mostly LNG)  or dual-fuel (fuel oil-LNG) use is also done. For example the Anthony Veder Coral Methane is a ship that can run on both LNG and fuel oil (see http://www.anthonyveder.com/news/item/19/Coral+Methane+-+Anthony+Veder's+first+LNG+tanker+-+takes+to+the+seas , http://www.anthonyveder.com/news/item/35/Steel+cutting+of+eco-friendly+Gas+Tanker+Coral+Energy )
91.182.124.159 (talk) 07:46, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Environmental improvements

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message: There are rival claims of 16,000 and 19,000 TEU as the maximum capacity of these ships in the article. Some update is needed, and a citation. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:35, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradictory capacity

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message: I removed the following, completely uncited passage, which in its original form was added by a single edit:
The aforementioned reduction in ship operating costs accrue to companies owning or operating container ships. But for others connected with trade, such as ports, railways, road transporters and trade (exporters and importers), the operating costs have risen exponentially. Several elements of costs that were borne in the past by ship operators are now borne by trade, as standard terms of carriage of goods by sea have now been drastically revised by container-shipping lines. Despite saving in operating costs, shipping freight have not fallen significantly because freight is globally fixed sector-wise by shipping cartels.
In short, containers have helped to optimize the operation of ships, while the additional burden of ancillary costs that has been transferred from ships onto other (i.e. onshore) entities is normally ignored in public perception.
While the entire History section needs more citations, harsh claims like these particularly need some sort of supporting evidence. Wikipedia cannot accept them merely on one person's say-so.
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message: Am wondering about containership capacity in terms of mass/weight. It seems TEU is the only measure given. In that article, it seems the TEU is strictly a measure of volume, though the max gross mass is given as 24 metric tons. While that figure may be the max weight that the container can handle, I presume that a containership cannot be loaded with its maximum number of TEUs (containers) loaded at their maximum weight (???). I have looked in the WP article displacement (ship) but no info there specific to containerships. This link looks authoritative but again has no info specific to containerships. Could someone please elaborate?Wikkileaker (talk) 13:10, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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message: The photo of 2 ships passing each other, it's apparently not real.  Get a real one?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.145.95.118 (talk) 23:45, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
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message: The data in the columns Beam and Draft are different from those in the column Example. --Angelo Mascaro (talk) 08:18, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table ''Container Ship Size Categories'' incoherent 

message: I'm surprised this entry has no information on crew sizes or positions for container ships.  What's the average crew size for a ship of each of the seven classes?  2600:1702:16A1:3600:9C11:A7B5:DBBE:8E6F (talk) 01:47, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crew size 

message: Singapore is in top 10 busiest ports, isn't it? Most of the busiest sports are in China (including Hong Kong), but the Port of Singapore has been omitted from the list of top 10 busiest container ports. 120.21.173.32 (talk) 11:50, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singapore is in top 10 too, isn't it? 

message: In this article the starvationer boat is called a box boat (the first example of containerisation).
These are two separate designs of boat.
The starvationer ( a very small craft used in the underground canals at Worsley) was not an example of containerisation.
The box boat was a larger design, the origin of the narrowboat, which had it's cargo of coal craned in and out in boxes and thus the first example of containerisation.
The boxes had bottom doors to discharge the coal. 188.28.53.194 (talk) 18:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starvationer