Two Big or Not Too Big - Part 2

 Today's two good sized container ships at PSA Atlantic Hub did not appear to strain the terminal's capacity as several of its seven Ship to Shore (STS) cranes were not needed to handle the volume of cargo.[See Part 1 posted earlier].

At Pier 42 (left in the photo) CMA CGM Ambition was using two cranes and APL Southampton at Pier 41 was using only one. The two cranes at the far south end of Pier 42 (left in photo) are not high enough to work bigger ships, but might have been able to handle this one.

 CMA CGM Ambition - a first time caller - is working on a Mediterranean- North America service jointly operated by CMA CGM, COSCO, ONE, OOCL, Yang Ming and ZIM. The addition of Halifax to port calls was announced November 5.

Port rotation is now Algeciras, Salerno, La Spezia, Genoa, Valencia, Algeciras, Halifax, New York, Norfolk, Savannah, Miami, Algeciras. 

The ship was built in 2024 by Samsung Heavy Industry at Geoje. It is a dual fuel /LNG ship of 73,133 gt, 85,664 dwt with a capacity of 7327 TEU with 900 reefer points. 

APL Southampton was last here in May 14, 2023, on an unscheduled call. It dates from 2012 when it was delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd in Geoje. It comes in at 128,929 gt, 131,357 dwt with a capacity of 10,070 TEU. It only needed one crane to handle its cargo today. (TEU capacity has also been reported at 10,800 and 10,960.)

 The ship is operating on the OCEAN Alliance (CMA CGM, COSCO / OOCL, Evergreen, ONE) Asia - North America service. and arrived from Colombo.  (Apparently non-stop via the Cape of Good Hope.)

In reverse of the expected configuration, the larger ship has its single superstructure aft of midships and the smaller ship has the split superstructure, with the bridge forward of midships.

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