MSC Pamela at the Port of Felixstowe England on the 15th August 2005

MSC Pamela was built by Samsung Heavy Industries and launched in 2005. The Port of Felixstowe, in Suffolk is the UK's busiest container port dealing with 35% of the country's container cargo Samsung Heavy Industries or SHI ( Korean: 삼성중공업 Hanja: 三星重工業 is one of the largest Shipbuilders in the world and one of the It is currently one of the largest container ships in the world with a capacity of 9,178 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) — around 300 containers per crew member. Container ships are Cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers in a technique called Containerization. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of Container ships and Container

The vessel's engine, also built by Samsung Heavy Industries, consumes 248 tonnes of heavy fuel oil per day. In terms of fuel efficiency, the Pamela's consumption is equivalent to a typical family hatchback car running for a whole day on only about 2 litres of fuel—less than two thirds of a US Gallon. US customary units, also known in the United States as English units or Imperial units (in reference to the British Empire) (but see English

The vessel measures 336. 6m in length, a draft of 15m, with a gross tonnage of 107,200 tonnes and with a breadth of 45. The draft (or draught) of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the Waterline and the bottom of the hull ( Keel) with the thickness 6m (150ft); is capable of a maximum speed of 25. 2 knots. She sails under the Panamanian flag for the Mediterranean Shipping Company. Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. Mediterranean Shipping Company SA (MSC is currently the second-largest container shipping line in the world

At its launch, Pamela broke the world records for the number of containers that could be carried on a single vessel. ^[1] As a post-Panamax vessel, and therefore unable to pass through the Panama Canal, she operates on a vessel string transporting containers between the Far East's and Europe's major ports. " Panamax " ships are of the maximum dimensions that will fit through the locks of the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is a man-made Canal in Panama which joins the Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia.

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