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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, Gulsun container largest in the world

 

MSC GULSUN - Launched in July 2019, this is one heck of an ocean gas guzzler based on a hull shape for optimization to reduce wave and friction drag.

 

 

1. MSC Gulsun

MSC Gulsun is the World’s largest container ship built to date (October 2019). It is the first 24k Mega Max container ship with a container carrying capacity of 23,756 TEU.

 

It is longer than four football fields put together and bigger than the Empire State Building and Eiffel Tower. With dimensions of 399.9 metres long and 61.5 metres wide, its a titan among container ships at sea, and an engineering marvel roaming across oceans sadly belching smoke that is adding to global warming and acid oceans.

 

MSC Gulsun is owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company, operating under a Panamanian Flag. She was built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and launched in July 2019.

 

MSC Gulsun is powered by a MAN B&W new generation G-type diesel engine with an ultra-long stroke. This optimized engine design is to enhance efficient propulsion, reduce fuel consumption and lower CO2.

 

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has selected MAN Diesel & Turbo to equip its 23,000 TEU new builds with G-type engines — a design with an ultra-long stroke that improves ship pollution.

By opting for a MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9.5 main engine, MSC’s 11 new vessels will have a lower optimum engine speed, a larger propeller and engine propulsion, resulting in less fuel consumption and reduced CO2 emissions.

The world’s second largest carrier has also split its vessel order between the Korean shipyards of Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), which will construct six of the vessels, and Daewoo Shipping Marine Engineering (DSME) with the remaining five.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI-EMD) will construct the ME-C engines for SHI, while Doosan Engine will construct those for DSME. 

 

 

 

Largest marine diesel engines in the world

 

 

MAN B&W G95ME-C9.6 Stroke: 3,460 mm

Cylinders  &  kW 


5    -  34,350
6    -  41,220
7    -  48,090
8    -  54,960
9    -  61,830
10  -  68,700
11  -  75,570
12  -  82,440

 

MSC GULSUN (IMO: 9839430) is registered and sailing under the flag of Panama. Her gross tonnage is 210000 and deadweight is 197500. MSC GULSUN was built in 2019. The ship is operated by MSC MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING CO.

 

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STANDARD

 

Modern containers ships are cargo ships designed to carry their cargo in standardised steel boxes, using a technique called “Containerization”. This type of ocean transport contributes about 90% of non-bulk cargo movement worldwide. This is how you get your televisions, computers, fruits and spare parts. Cars are generally transported by ferries, though some collector vehicles are delivered in containers.

 

Fossil fuelled container ships that belch clouds of fumes as they ply the ocean may one day be a thing of the past. Shipping will continue without those who fail to adapt to changing circumstances such as global warming and zero carbon fleets by 2100, as part of the IMO's ocean cleanup objectives. In the meantime here are the top ten biggest gas guzzlers and potential ocean polluters in the world @ October 2019.

 

 

RANKED

SHIP NAME

No. BUILT

LOA

TEU

1.

MSC GULSUN

5

399.9

23,756

2.

OOCL HONG KONG

5

399.9

21,413

3.

COSCO Shipping Universe 

3

400.0

21,237

4.

CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery

2

400.0

20,954

5.

Madrid MAERSK

10

399.0

20,568

6.

Ever Golden

10

400.0

20,388

7.

MOL Truth

1

399.0

20,182

8.

MOL Triumph

3

400.0

20,170

9.

COSCO Shipping Taurus

4

399.8

20,119

10.

Barzan

5

400.0

19,870

 

 

The use of fossil fuels raises serious environmental concerns. The burning of fossil fuels produces around 21.3 billion tonnes (21.3 gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. It is estimated that natural processes can only absorb about half of that amount, so there is a net increase of 10.65 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that increases contributes to global warming. A global movement towards the generation of low-carbon renewable energy is underway to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

 

 

Highly polluting marine diesel engines

 

 

SIX STEPS TOWARD A COOLER PLANET

 

1. TRANSPORT: Phase out polluting vehicles. Governments aim to end the sale of new petrol, and diesel vehicles by 2040 but have no infrastructure plan to support such ambition. Marine transport can be carbon neutral with development..

 

2. RENEWABLESRenewable energy should replace carbon-based fuels (coal, oil and Gas) in our electricity, heating and transport.

 

3. HOUSING: On site micro or macro generation is the best option, starting with new build homes to lock carbon.

 

4. AGRICULTURE: We need trees to absorb carbon emissions from a growing population, flying, and to build new homes. Reducing food waste and promoting less energy intensive eating habits such as no meat Mondays.

 

5. INDUSTRY: Factories should be aiming for solar heating and onsite renewable energy generation.

 

6. POLITICS: - National governing bodies need to adopt rules to eliminate administrative wastages, to include scaling down spending on war machines, educating the public and supporting sustainable social policies and financing that mesh with other cultures.

 

 

Marine diesel engine crankshaft

 

These marvels of engineering excellence got us where we are today, technology wise, but threaten to destroy the planet if we do not adapt in time to repair at least some of the damage we have done.

 

 

FOSSIL FUEL HEALTH HAZARDS

Combustion of fossil fuels generates sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, which fall to Earth as acid rain, impacting both natural areas and the built environment. Monuments and sculptures made from marble and limestone are particularly vulnerable, as the acids dissolve calcium carbonate.

Fossil fuels also contain radioactive materials, mainly uranium and thorium, which are released into the atmosphere. In 2000, about 12,000 tonnes of thorium and 5,000 tonnes of uranium were released worldwide from burning coal. It is estimated that during 1982, US coal burning released 155 times as much radioactivity into the atmosphere as the Three Mile Island accident.

 

 

One of the world's largest marine diesel engines being assembled

 

One of the world's largest diesel engines being assembled in Japan.

 

 

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2019 COP 25/CMP 15/CMA 4 TBA

2022 COP 26 - Will they have applied the brakes?

 

 

 

LINKS & REFERENCE

 

www.marine.man.eu/

https://marine.man-es.com/

 

 

 

EXTINCTION OF SPECIES - From blue planet to scorched earth because vested interests prevented politicians from putting the brakes on. Economics stopped them thinking about the safety of life on earth, including the future of our children. They'd rather die richer, than live, gambling with the lives our their offspring and every other species on planet earth.

 

 

Please stop playing with fire, there is no Planet B

 

 

 

HOW MUCH IS THE EARTH HEATING UP - As of early 2017, the Earth had warmed by roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit (more than 1 degree Celsius) since 1880, when records began at a global scale. The number may sound low, but as an average over the surface of an entire planet, it is actually high, which explains why much of the world’s land ice is starting to melt and the oceans are rising at an accelerating pace. If greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, scientists say, the global warming could ultimately exceed 8 degrees Fahrenheit, which would undermine the planet’s capacity to support a large human population.

 

 

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