The CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE becomes the largest containership in the world sailing under the French flag
The CMA CGM Group, a worldwide leading shipping group, announced that the CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE has entered the group’s fleet and becomes the largest containership in the world under French flag. It is the fourth vessel of the 18000TEU series, bearing the names of great explorers.
Largest vessel sailing under French flag, the CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE was delivered on August 25th. With her 400m length – about 4 football fields end to end – and 54 meters width, this giant of the seas and her extraordinary dimensions, has a capacity of 18,000 TEU (twenty-feet equivalent containers).
Calling at Le Havre every 77days, the CMA CGM KERGUELEN is positioned on one of the most emblematic lines of the CMA CGM Group. The FAL joins Europe to Asia.
In fact, the vessel’s CO2 emissions average at only 37g of CO2/km for each container, energy efficiency almost three times higher than recorded by the group’s fleet 10 years ago.
The CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE was delivered by the Korean shipyard Samsung on August 25th and begun its first rotation by calling at Asian ports.
She will call at Shanghai on September 5th, Port Kelang on the 13th, Suez on the 15th and Algeciras on October 1st to finally arrive at Le Havre on October 5th in the morning.
