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The Biggest Ship in the World Has Floated For the First Time

Posted December 05, 2013 10:00 AM

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The Emma Maersk was dethroned as the world's largest seafaring vessel this morning when this ship, longer than the Empire State Building, left its dry dock in South Korea for the first time.

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12/05/2013 11:59 AM

I think 'the biggest ship in the world' has floated for the first time many times before.

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12/05/2013 3:26 PM

Will this behemoth fit through the Panama or Suez Canal? I guess this ship will never see the Atlantic then.

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12/06/2013 12:07 AM

The Panama Canal Widening project is scheduled to be completed by 2015.
But I don't know if that answers your question.

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12/06/2013 4:25 AM

Post-panamax have some other possibilities for switching sides, including the recently opened Northwest Passage, the Straights of Magellan, taking the long route around the Horn of Africa, and the maybe even crossing through the currently speculative Nicaraguan canal.

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12/05/2013 6:27 PM

Hmmm...

Designed to sail somewhere... Anchor... hook up to fixed facilities and stay there for a couple of decades, barring economic or other disaster.

Well, I guess you could call it a ship, but "mobile marine based processing facility" is far more accurate!
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12/05/2013 7:25 PM

The R.M.S. Titanic of the "21st Century"?

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