Savannah Express
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Savannah Express is a container ship
owned by the Hapag-Lloyd
company out of Hamburg
, Germany
. She was completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8401 TEUs at any one time. The deadweight tonnage (DWT) is 107,000 metric tons
and the maximum speed of this ship is 25 knots. The ship is 332 meters long and has a beam
(or width) of 43.20 meters. The engines are capable of outputting 68,520 kilowatts of power.
Container ship
Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...
owned by the Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, which in turn owns other subsidiaries such as Hapag-Lloyd Ships and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now integrated into TUI AG, Hanover...
company out of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. She was completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8401 TEUs at any one time. The deadweight tonnage (DWT) is 107,000 metric tons
Tonne
The tonne, known as the metric ton in the US , often put pleonastically as "metric tonne" to avoid confusion with ton, is a metric system unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. The tonne is not an International System of Units unit, but is accepted for use with the SI...
and the maximum speed of this ship is 25 knots. The ship is 332 meters long and has a beam
Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point. Generally speaking, the wider the beam of a ship , the more initial stability it has, at expense of reserve stability in the event of a capsize, where more energy is required to right the vessel from its inverted position...
(or width) of 43.20 meters. The engines are capable of outputting 68,520 kilowatts of power.