World's Largest 24,000 TEU-Class Container Ship Completed Undocking in China

TapTechNews June 9th news, the world's largest 24,000 TEU-class container ship, the COSCO Kawasaki 398 built by a shipbuilder in Nantong, Jiangsu, completed the undocking and berthing operation on June 7th of this year.

According to the introduction, the COSCO Kawasaki 398 has a length of 399.99 meters, a beam of 61.30 meters, a depth of 33.20 meters, a deadweight of 220,000 tons, and a container capacity of 24,188 TEUs. This ship type is the largest new generation of ultra-large container ship type with the largest container capacity in the world, and it is also the largest container ship type with the largest container position that can navigate in the Yangtze River channel.

Since the first 24,000 TEU container ship, the COSCO Kawasaki 335, undocked on November 15, 2022, up to now, a total of 5 ships of the same type have been trial-run and delivered one after another from Nantong, and the COSCO Kawasaki 398 that undocked this time is also the last one in this series of orders.

Regarding why not build a 400-meter integral ship, TapTechNews found out that in order to reduce the voyage and freight, international large container ships generally choose to sail in canals during the shipping process. In order to prevent the situation of blocking the canals, the canal management department stipulates that the length of the ship should be less than 400 meters (ships over 400 meters can also pass, but it needs to go through a special approval process).