Liaoning: Shipbuilders hit milestone

2014/01/22

The nation's first proprietary cargo ship capable of 10,000 standard containers was delivered on Jan 8 in Dalian. The ship, named the CSCL Spring, was designed and built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co for China Shipping Container Lines Co. It is 335 meters long and 48.6 meters wide. It can carry a maximum of 10,036 twenty-foot equivalent units with a total weight of 121,800 tons, and has a range of around 20,000 nautical miles.


(Source: China Daily)