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.
全世界正翘首期盼它们乘船出海远洋的那天。嗯,是这样的:我们每天都用到很多东西,从手机到鞋子再到汽车,而它们主要乘船旅行前往无论你身处何方的世界任何一个角落。想象一下巨大的游轮,但不是泳池和餐馆,载满成千上万五彩缤纷集装箱的船只在大海上航行,然后通过火车和卡车送达至你的地区。这可能是未来的一天停靠在亚洲一些最繁忙的港口的一艘新船, 有别于海上其他船，它的一个主要特征就是很大。比泰坦尼克号还大约1.5倍。来自于世界上最大的集装箱公司的世界上最大的船。这是马士基穆勒号的首航。它是一艘海上怪物。从我站在这里看,接下来船身到螺旋桨的远端距离是400米,当这艘船满载,它有20层楼高, 庞然大物马士基穆勒号确实很美丽。她太大以致于不能通过巴拿马运河,而如此之深以致于不能进入大多数美洲港口。但以上通通不是她的职责所在。这艘船是专门设计在欧亚航线运载18000个集装箱,并且做得比竞争对手更低的成本。除了船的总体规模,马士基表示这是真正的业界改革者。
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