MSC Zoe là sản phẩm của hãng vận tải biển hàng đầu thế giới - Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC - Thụy Sĩ). Tàu container này có chiều dài hơn 395m, rộng gần 60m và sức chứa hơn 197.000 tấn hàng hóa. So với tàu Titanic huyền thoại, MSC Zoe là một gã khổng lồ.
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Tàu này được trang bị động cơ diesel, công suất lên tới 83.800 mã lực và chân vịt có đường kính hơn 10m. Tuy có kích cỡ khổng lồ, toàn bộ tàu được điều khiển bởi thủy thủ đoàn chỉ gồm 22 người.
Zoe chia sẻ danh hiệu tàu container lớn nhất thế giới cùng hai người anh em - MSC Oscar và MSC Oliver. Cả 3 đều thuộc MSC. Hãng cũng dự kiến đóng thêm 3 con tàu nữa có kích cỡ tương tự.
Việc đóng tàu hoàn thành hồi tháng 8/2015, do công ty Shipbuilding & Maritime Engineering Shipyard thuộc Tập đoàn Daewoo (Hàn Quốc) thực hiện. Tên tàu được đặt theo Zoe Vago - cháu gái của nhà sáng lập kiêm chủ tịch MSC Group.
Image caption The MSC Oscar is shorter in length than the CSCL Globe but can carry more containers
The newly-crowned largest container ship in the world has arrived at Felixstowe for its first visit to the UK.
MSC Oscar is shorter in length than the previous holder the CSCL Globe, which docked in Felixstowe in January, but can carry 124 more containers.
It is 396m (1,300ft) long and has a capacity of 19,224 standard containers.
Clemence Cheng, chief executive of Port of Felixstowe, said it was a "very happy day" for the port. Image caption Spotters took up their positions to watch the ship on the horizon at about 09:00 GMT Image caption The MSC Oscar (left) passes the MSC Banu on the horizon as the latter was leaving Felixstowe Image caption More people gathered at Landguard Point as the MSC Oscar negotiated the channel into the port Image caption The MSC Oscar had sailed to Felixstowe from Holland More than 200 people lined the beach between the public viewing platform and Landguard Point to welcome the ship's arrival, although the ship was not carrying a full load.
'Fascination'
Barrie Bridle, 57, from Southampton, was spending the week in Felixstowe to see the ship.
"I work in the marine industry and we get a lot of shipping in Southampton, but it's always nice to see something different and we don't get them that big in our port," he said.
"She'll be just as impressive going out, hopefully with a few more boxes on her."
Graham Meadows, 60, from Ipswich, said he had a "fascination" with its size.
"I missed the Globe in January because I was away, so I got down here early this morning," he said.
"I've just finished a night-shift, so I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but I also hope to come down at night and photograph it before I go to work.
"My partner understands my interest in photography, so she accepts it whether it's wildlife or anything else." Image caption The Port of Felixstowe said MSC's continued use of Felixstowe was a "seal of approval" Image caption The MSC Oscar is docked at berths eight and nine Image caption As the MSC Oscar was docking, the MSC's ER Pusan was following close behind Image caption The CSCL Globe, with a capacity of 19,100 standard containers, visited Felixstowe in January
MSC Oscar
Built and launched at Daewoo's shipyard in South Korea in 2014
Cost £93m ($140m)
Named after Oscar, son of Diego Aponte, president and chief executive officer of MSC
Deck is the size of four football pitches
Draught (distance between bottom of hull and the boat's waterline) is 50ft (16m)
Could carry 1.15 million washing machines
35 crew members
Source: MSC
The MSC Oscar had sailed from Wilhelmshaven in Germany and will leave Felixstowe on Tuesday before heading to Rotterdam in The Netherlands and then on to China via Algeciras in Spain and the Suez Canal.
Mr Cheng said MSC had worked with the port for the past 30 years and that its continued business, despite the added option of London Gateway, was a "seal of approval".
"We're giving them the service that they want," he said. "It's good for the port, good for Suffolk and good for the country."
The size of a container ship is defined in terms of its load capacity.
The world's largest container ship has arrived in the UK for the first time at the Port of Felixstowe.
The Hong Kong-registered CSCL Globe, measuring more than 400m (1,313ft) in length, docked at Felixstowe at 12:30 GMT loaded with about 19,000 standard containers.
Paul Davey, from the port, said: "We've had largest ships in the world before, but the ships do keep getting bigger and keep choosing the Port of Felixstowe as their UK port of call, which is good news for us."
The ship, longer than four football fields placed end-to-end, has been operational for about a month.
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