Boxship CMA CGM Jacques Saade Sets New Record for Full Containers

  Boxship CMA CGM Jacques Saade Sets New Record for Full Containers Image courtesy CMA CGMBY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE 10-13-2020 03:27:36   The container ship CMA CGM Jacques Saade, the world’s first LNG-fueled Megamax-24, has set a new world record for the number of full containers aboard a single vessel.  When she departed Singapore on October 12, the vesselContinue reading “Boxship CMA CGM Jacques Saade Sets New Record for Full Containers”

USS Louisana coaling in HR 1915.

  USS Louisana coaling in HR 1915. Louisiana returned to Hampton Roads in August 1914, but the Navy ordered her back to Mexico in early 1915.  At left, the battleship’s company hand-fills bags of coal from a barge.   The ship’s coal bunker could hold over 2,000 tons of coal.  After the 1915 deployment to Mexico,Continue reading “USS Louisana coaling in HR 1915.”