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Wal-Mart Container Ship

What a ship....no wonder 'Made in China' is displacing North American-made goods big time.
This monster t***sports goods across the Pacific in just 5 days!!

Another two will soon be commissioned.


These ships were commissioned by Wal-Mart to get
their imported goods from China ....

They hold an incredible 15,000 containers and have
a 207-foot deck beam, meaning the ship's width.

The full crew is just 13 people on a ship longer and
wider than a US Aircraft Carrier, which has a crew of 5,000.

With its 207' beam, it is too big to fit through the
Panama or Suez Canals.

The bottom of the blue paint is the ship's
water line when she is loaded.

The ship is so huge and heavy when loaded, she
hardly moves when sailing through mountainous seas.



It is strictly t***spacific. Cruise speed: 31 knots.
The goods arrive four days before the typical
container ship (18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run.
94% of Wal-Mart products are made in China.


So this behemoth is hugely competitive even when carrying perishable goods.
The ship was built in five sections. The sections are floated together and then welded.

The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs that can operate simultaneously unloading the entire ship in less than two hours.

Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP)Â
Cruise Speed - 31 knots



Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)

Crew - 13 people!
First trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+
Silicone paint applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.
You will notice below, the ship is sitting very high above
the water line because it is unloaded.



A documentary in late March 2010 on the History Channel noted that all of these containers are shipped back to China, EMPTY! Yep, that's right.

We send nothing back on these ships.

What does that tell you about the current financial state of the West in crisis?
So folks, just keep on buying those imported goods (mostly gadgets from China) until you run out of money. Then you may wonder what the cause of unemployment (maybe even your job) in the US, UK, Canada, and even in Australia ????

Kevyn

I do my best to buy Union made products from North America and Europe, I do buy some Japanese tools. I want to support companies who pay their employees fairly and societies that are free. This is getting more and more difficult as time passes.

woodguru

It tells me that the Bush era aggressively moving manufacturing overseas is k*****g us, we lost 25 million jobs during the Bush terms. We paid highly profitable companies billions of dollars in subsidies and tax incentives to create a situation where they can then evade paying taxes on the goods they make overseas and send back to the US.

Romney founded a consulting company that made $700 million dollars guiding US corporations into moving their manufacturing overseas in ways that maximized the subsidies and tax dodges they could take. I can't think of a more unamerican thing than participating in helping companies make even more money by taking thousands and tens of thousands of jobs away from this country simply to make a few hundred million more dollars.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I wonder why?

Capt-jack Loc: Home

Just pure BS woodie. Pure BS.

Capt-jack Loc: Home

I find it a wonder you can wonder!!!