As part of the regular weekly service called „Phoex“, which is jointly run by CMA CGM, CSCL and UASC (also know as the Ocean 3 alliance), container vessel CSCL Asia was berthed yesterday at AGCT.
Although nowdays we are used to seeing even larger vessels berthed at AGCT every week, the interesting fact about this one is that 2004, when it was built, CSCLA Asia was actualy largest ship in the world!
With the lenght of 334 m , beam of 43 m and capacity of 8100 TEU she is curently the largest vessel in the Ocean 3 alliance, considering that until now usualy the vessels in this service were 280 m long with 41 m beam and 5500 TEU capacity.
Just as a reminder, the curent recordin size is held by the Maersk vessels calling Rijeka in regular weekly service with the Far East jointly run by Maersk and MSC (the so called „2M“ alliance) with 367 m lenth, 42 m beam and capacity bertwwn 10 000 – 11 000 TEU.