The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the . Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.
The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.
Ships There exist four different ship types within the Explorer class. No. Ship Yard number IMO number Delivery Status ref Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (13830 TEU) 1 4156 9453559 10 November 2009 in service 2 4157 9454395 21 July 2010 in service 3 4158 9454400 16 August 2010 in service 4 4159 9454412 10 September 2010 in service 5 4160 9454424 28 September 2010 in service Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (16020 TEU) 6 4161 9454436 5 November 2012 in service 7 4162 9454448 16 April 2013 in service 8 4163 9454450 30 April 2013 in service Samsung Heavy Industries (17722 TEU) 9 2092 9702132 31 March 2015 in service 10 2093 9702144 2 June 2015 in service 11 2094 9702156 25 August 2015 in service Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industries (17859 TEU) 12 H6001 9706906 11 September 2015 in service 13 H6002 9706889 27 July 2015 in service 14 H6003 9706891 4 December 2015 in service
See also List of world's longest ships
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