By Wu Xiaoyun

n 15th September, the world’s largest 24,000 TEU container ship ‘NACKS 337’ which was built by Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. left the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River for trial voyage.

The ship ‘NACKS 337’ is the third trial voyage ship among the same series of ships researched, developed, designed and built independently by Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering. It is 399.99 m long, 61.3 m wide. The container capacity is 24,188 TEUs. Its deck area is equivalent to 3.5 standard football courts.

The ship type is a new generation of ultra-large container ship type of the largest container capacity in the world. It is also the largest container capacity container ship type which can travel in the Yangtze River channel.

Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering has undertaken 6 conventional-powered container ships with a capacity of 24,000 TEUs each and 7 methane dual-fuel container vessels with a capacity of 24,000 TEUs each. They will be gradually launched and delivered.