CMA CGM Vela is a container ship

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:...

 operated by CMA CGM

CMA CGM

CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company, headed by Jacques Saadé. It is the third largest container company in the world, using 200 shipping routes between 400 ports in 150 different countries...

. The ship is owned by Reederei NSB and operated by CMA CGM

CMA CGM

CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company, headed by Jacques Saadé. It is the third largest container company in the world, using 200 shipping routes between 400 ports in 150 different countries...

. The CMA CGM Vela was finished in 2008 by Daewoo

Daewoo

Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...

 Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Ltd and delivered to the owner on 19th October 2008. The ship was carrying yard number DSME hull 4125 and after launching it was christened in the ships home port 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.

Design

CMA CGM Vela is the largest ship in the fleet of CMA CGM. The vessel is 347.48 m (1,140 ft) long, has a beam of 45.02 m (147.7 ft) and maximum draft of 15.5 m (50.9 ft). The ship has a deadweight of 131,831 metric tons and capacity for 11,040 TEU. The gross tonnage of the vessel is 128,600 gross tons and the net tonnage is 72,696 net tons. The CMA CGM Vela has a Suez gross tonnage of 130392,48 GT and a Suez net tonnage of 114078,26 NT.

Engine

The CMA CGM Vela was built according to the latest IMO requirements. The ships main engine, a MAN B&W 12K98ME-C, produces enough power to reach a cruising speed of 24.3 knots.