{"id":2678,"date":"2013-01-01T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2012-12-24T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:09:48","slug":"cma-cgm-marco-polo-worlds-largest-containership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/cma-cgm-marco-polo-worlds-largest-containership\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA CGM Marco Polo World\u2019s Largest Containership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2685\" title=\"CMA CGM MARCO POLO World\u2019s Largest Containership\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CMA-CGM-MARCO-POLO-World\u2019s-Largest-Containership.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CMA-CGM-MARCO-POLO-World\u2019s-Largest-Containership.jpg 376w, https:\/\/cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/CMA-CGM-MARCO-POLO-World\u2019s-Largest-Containership-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/>T<\/strong>he CMA CGM Marco Polo, now the world\u2019s largest containership, arrived in Southampton on Sunday December 9th, 2012 loaded with containers from China, officially marking the completion of the first half of her maiden voyage from the Far East to Europe and back.,<br \/><\/br>With a 16,020 TEU capacity, the M\/V CMA CGM Marco Polo took over the title of world\u2019s largest containership upon her delivery to the French shipping company CMA CGM Group on November 5th, 2012. The UK-flagged behemoth was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea and measures an astounding 396 meters long by 54 meters wide and has a draft of 16 meters.<br \/><\/br>Marco Polo is the first of three sister ships to be owned by the CMA CGM Group, which will share the title of world\u2019s largest until Maersk\u2019s 18,000 TEU Triple-E\u2019s are put into service sometime in 2013.<br \/><\/br><strong>THE SCHEDULE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OF MARCO POLO:<\/strong><br \/><\/br>The CMA CGM MARCO POLO will call at Ningbo (7 Nov), Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Yantian, Port Kelang, Tanger, Southampton (10 Dec), Hamburg (14 Dec), Bremerhaven (14 Dec), Rotterdam (16 Dec), Zeebrugge (17 Dec), Le Havre (19 Dec), Malta (26 Dec), Khor Al Fakkan (5 Jan), Jebel Ali (7 Jan) and Ningbo (23 Jan).<br \/><\/br>CSS Group is pleased that its cargo will be carried on board of this record breaking voyage which is scheduled to arrive in Jebel Ali, UAE\u00a0 on January 7th,\u00a0 2013!<br \/><\/br>More details to follow in the forthcoming issue of Lighthouse, March-April 2013 edition!<br \/><\/br><strong>INTERESTING FACTS:<\/strong><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marco Polo, the new giant of the waves, is five times bigger than an Airbus A380 or the size of four football pitches.<\/li>\n<li>Can carry more than 16,000 containers on board.<\/li>\n<li>Vessel is 51 times longer than superliner Queen Mary 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA CGM Marco Polo, now the world\u2019s largest containership, arrived in Southampton on Sunday December 9th, 2012 loaded with containers from China, officially marking the completion of the first half of her maiden voyage from the Far East to Europe and back.,With a 16,020 TEU capacity, the M\/V CMA CGM Marco Polo took over &#8230; <a title=\"CMA CGM Marco Polo World\u2019s Largest Containership\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/cma-cgm-marco-polo-worlds-largest-containership\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CMA CGM Marco Polo World\u2019s Largest Containership - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cssgroupsite.com\/lighthouse\/cma-cgm-marco-polo-worlds-largest-containership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CMA CGM Marco Polo World\u2019s Largest Containership - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The CMA CGM Marco Polo, now the world\u2019s largest containership, arrived in Southampton on Sunday December 9th, 2012 loaded with containers from China, officially marking the completion of the first half of her maiden voyage from the Far East to Europe and back.,With a 16,020 TEU capacity, the M\/V CMA CGM Marco Polo took over ... 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