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REGINA MAERSK
In the mid 1990s, more and more dry goods were being
produced in Asia to be shipped to Europe or North
America. Maersk saw this as the opportunity to develop
post-Panamax vessels – larger vessels that could not
pass through the Panama canal but could perfectly serve
the routes from Asia to Europe and from Asia to North
America West Coast.
Taking a different approach to the previous focus on the
polyvalence of the fleet and no longer considering the
width of the Panama canal as the reference width for the
largest vessels, Maersk deployed the Regina Maersk in
1996 with its width of 42 meters, compared to the
canal’s maximum of 32.
Regina Maersk was the largest containership built since
the American Presidents Line ships that began entering
service in 1988. Regina Maersk can carry 6,000 standard
containers (TEU) that can be stacked 17 across and 13
high.
Regina Maersk is driven by the world’s most powerful
diesel engine available at that time. She also has four
auxiliary engines generating more than the 12,000
kilowatts to power the ships and refrigerated
containers.
Regina Maersk’s maiden voyage from Europe arrived at
Singapore February 27th 1996. With a draft of 47 feet,
there were only a few ports that could accommodate this
size of ship. Singapore, Kaohsiung / Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Kobe, Yokohama, and Nagoya in Japan were the only ports
in Asia deep enough.
Regina Maersk arrived at New York for the first time in
July 1998. She had to be maneuvered into port with
extreme caution, as New York’s harbor, like all other
east coast harbors, are too shallow to accommodate her
with a full load.
Regina Maersk
was the first of 12 ships in this class ordered by the
Maersk line. At 1,043 feet long and with a bridge 14
stories high, the US Authorities had to dredge their
ports to 50 feet or risk loosing the trade. This type of
container ship is classed as open top with no hatch
covers. They use an effective pump system for
stabilizing purposes that controls the amount of water
in the hull.
At the
time of her delivery, the vessel broke many records. She
was:
- The
first ship over 6,000 TEU capacity (actual capacity of
6,400 TEU)
- The first container ship over 300 meters (length of
318.2 meters);
- The first with 42.80 m breadth
- The first over 80,000 GT
She was also the first Mærsk vessel with a blue hull.
We build this
primarily wood
model
of the
Regina Maersk container
ship
at 27" long,
35" long (1/350 scale, one will be complete soon), and 87"
long.
Email us for quotes.
Don't be fooled by
junk
containership models circulating out there.
They are mass
produced by sweatshops. The middlemen import them by
container loads and when they realize that they
can't sell them easily, they unload them with
extremely low prices to save storage fee and to
salvage their transportation cost. The grave errors
in the photo below (Maersk
Alabama)
took us less than 5 minutes to spot.
Click
here to learn
about commercial ship models.
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