On Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 12:05:29 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 7:15:02 PM UTC-4, True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 19:53:53 UTC-3, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/18/21 4:43 PM, True North wrote:
Not sure if anyone has much interest in boats or ships anymore but we have a special visitor in Halifax.
Supposed to be the biggest container ship to ever visit the east coast of North America and the Port of Halifax is first to host it


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ship-1.6030678

Wowser! Wonder how many gallons per mile it burns?
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I can only imagine!
I went to the ports arrivals and departures where it lists the Marco Polo at 174,000 G?T.
Not sure if that means fully loaded or dry. That's almost equal to two Nimitz class aircraft carriers.
One site compared it to the French aircraft carrier, Charles d'Gaulle. The French warship looked puny in the comparison graphic..
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It has a single diesel engine rated at 107,390 hp. Top speed for the Marco Polo is 25 kts but probably operated a bit slower at around 20 kts. At that speed it would burn about 4,000 gallons per hour or 200 gallons per nautical mile. At 6076 feet per nm, it would burn a little over 30 gallons per foot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA_CGM_Marco_Polo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A...Sulzer_RTA96-C
Correction: Make that 30 feet per gallon, not 30 gallons per foot.