全世界正翹首期盼它們乘船出海遠洋的那天。
嗯,是這樣的:我們每天都用到很多東西,從手機到鞋子再到汽車,而它們主要乘船旅行前往無論你身處何方的世界任何一個角落。
想像一下巨大的遊輪,但不是泳池和餐館,
載滿成千上萬五彩繽紛集裝箱的船隻在大海上航行,然後通過火車和卡車送達至你的地區。
這可能是未來的一天停靠在亞洲一些最繁忙的港口的一艘新船, 有別於海上其他船，它的一個主要特徵就是很大。
比泰坦尼克號還大約1.5倍。
來自於世界上最大的集裝箱公司的世界上最大的船。
這是馬士基穆勒號的首航。
它是一艘海上怪物。
從我站在這裡看,接下來船身到螺旋槳的遠端距離是400米,
當這艘船滿載,它有20層樓高, 龐然大物馬士基穆勒號確實很美麗。
她太大以致於不能通過巴拿馬運河,而如此之深以致於不能進入大多數美洲港口。
但以上通通不是她的職責所在。
這艘船是專門設計在歐亞航線運載18000個集裝箱,並且做得比競爭對手更低的成本。
除了船的總體規模,馬士基表示這是真正的業界改革者。
驅動雙螺旋槳的是兩個43000馬力的發動機，
但卻以慢速率驅動螺旋槳,
這意味著將能夠節省大約三分之一的燃料費用,
而且這些引擎的功率只是普通引擎的一半。
這意味著她會略慢於比自己規模較小的競爭對手,但回報是值得的,馬士基說道。
燃料成本的節省,當然會帶來更為便宜的運費,
而且馬士基表示實際這些集裝箱從亞洲到歐洲或歐洲到亞洲大約只需要平常一半的費用。
馬士基已經有20筆訂單,未來近20億美元。
雖然現在感到這只海上猛獁正在低迷的全球經濟放緩的世界貿易中掙扎。
然而不鋌而走險很難獲得巨額利潤。
雖然這艘船上的所有東西並不都是巨大的。
如果我要駕馭這艘世界最大的船,我得找個操縱杆來。
就在這裡。
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The world waits upon day they go down to the sea in ships.
Well, it's like this: so many of the things we use every day, from phones to shoes to cars, they've traveled the major shipping lanes of the world to get wherever you are.
Think giant cruise ships, but instead of pools and restaurants,
they are stock with thousands of multicolored boxes of cargo that float on ships across the sea, and then head to your area on the cars of trains and wheels of trucker trailers.
That could be a new boat docked at some of Asia's busiest ports in the day ahead, and it has one major feature that separates it from every other boat in the sea: it's bigger.
Like 1.5 times longer than the Titanic bigger.
From the world's biggest shipping container company comes the world's biggest ship.
This is the maiden voyage of the Maersk McKinney Moeller.
It's a monster.
From where I'm standing here, next to the bout to the propellers of the far end, is 400 meters,
and when this ship is fully laden, it's 20 stories high, and Maersk is taking a big bet that big is indeed beautiful.
She's so big she can't get through the Panama Canal, and so deep that she can't get into most ports in the Americas.
But that's not her job.
This vessel was built to carry 18,000 containers exclusively on the Europe-Asia route, and to do it much more cheaply than its rivals.
Apart from the overall size of this vessel, Maersk says this is the real game changer.
This is one of two 43,000 horsepower engines, which drive twin propellers,
but they drive those propellers at a much slower rate,
which means it cuts the fuel bill by about a third,
and it's also that these engines pump out about half the level of emissions that normal engines do.
It means that she's slightly slower than her smaller rivals, but the payoff is worth it, says Maersk.
Cheaper fuel costs, of course, means cheaper freight,
and Maersk says to actually ship one of these containers from Asia to Europe or Europe to Asia is about half as much as.
Maersk has 20 on order, and near $2 billion on its future.
Right now, though, it is struggling to feel these mammoths as the sluggish global economy slows world trade.
Without a pickup in trade big profits may be elusive.
Not everything on this ship is big, though.
If I want to steer the world's biggest vessel, I've got a joystick to do that.
And here it is.
Andrew Sevens, CNN for the Maersk McKinney Moeller, Hong Kong.
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