Most of the ships on the Kiel Canal are container ships. 2012 sailed 34,879 ships (excluding pleasu

Most of the ships on the Kiel Canal are container ships. 2012 sailed 34,879 ships (excluding pleasure boats) the Kiel Canal. So these are an average of 95 ships per day. Slowly the number hamburg sud schedules of ships again increases, but is still short of the record year 2008 In the year for the first time in the history of the canal was the magic number of 100 million tons of cargo broken - and there were about 105 million tons. Is this possible rapid transport of the goods by the container. Today, in North German ports about 18 million containers are moved. 356 million containers are transported by shipping companies per year worldwide with ships. Each container has its own number. It consists of four uppercase letters that stand for the owner of the container, and six digits plus a check digit. By they way and whereabouts can be tracked each container on its journey.
The history of these metal boxes began in the USA with the American Malcolm P. McLean. To save the customary transhipment in port, he should hamburg sud schedules have had as a young haulier in 1937 the idea to load first all trucks on ships, later only the trailer hamburg sud schedules along with their loaded containers, finally only the containers themselves - born was the container. But his idea he could not initially inspire. The skepticism was too big. McLean, still convinced of his idea, unceremoniously hamburg sud schedules founded his own shipping hamburg sud schedules company. On April 26, 1956, the "Sea Land" started on the converted tanker "Ideal X" in the port of Newark, New Jersey (USA) with 56 containers on board toward Houston / Texas. The first German container ship ran 12 years later in 1968 from Hamburg.
The shipping company Sea Land there until the end of the 90s. Even after the sale of the Danish shipping company Maersk Maersk-Sealand, the name was still visible on ships and of course on containers. But after the takeover by the P & O Nedlloyd in early 2006, the shipping company is now called simply Maersk Line. Also, this name is often reads on the North Sea-Baltic Canal (see photo above). On May 6, 1966, the first container arrived in Germany. 99 of them brought the "Fairland" in the Bremen Overseas hamburg sud schedules port. But in Germany the skepticism was initially very large. So not a big hoopla was made with the arrival of sea chests. When unloading a container that slipped out of the anchorage and fell on the cab of a brand new truck. But no one was injured. But the triumph of the container could not be stopped, because the shippers hamburg sud schedules had quickly recognized hamburg sud schedules the genius. Previously, goods were often stored in sacks and had to be very time consuming loaded and unloaded. The deletion of 360 coffee bags needed, for example, almost four hours. Today, these come with a single container within hamburg sud schedules minutes ashore. Wait times at ports are very expensive. By this container could be considerably shortened. Earned in the harbor a ship no money, it costs only. However, also lost thousands of port workers, the sooner the loading and unloading of ships accomplished their job. The shipowners hamburg sud schedules began to build container ships. Today, there are already ships that can accommodate up to 10,000 containers. Forecasts say that one end of the size is far from sight. Plans for ships with 18,000 containers are already in the drawers. Currently, about 70 percent of all general cargo transported in containers. Since 1996, the number of container hamburg sud schedules ships doubled. hamburg sud schedules The container market is growing three times faster than the global economy. The Kiel Canal cruise vessels are loaded with up to about 1,000 containers. More can not receive the channel at the time. The ships would then have too much depth and too would not the tight curves on the eastern route. But the channel management has reagi ert: The eastern section will be expanded train to train and increase the curve radii. For this purpose, in 2008 a planning group has been launched which aims to prepare the development of the North Sea-Baltic Canal. Construction is scheduled to take place soon. Containers are incidentally measured hamburg sud schedules in TEUs. The abbreviation TEU stands hamburg sud schedules for "Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit" - twenty foot equivalent unit. When a container ship also has a capacity of 1033 TEU, may 1033 standard containers (length of 20 feet, 1 meter is equal to 3.28095 feet or 1 foot is equal to 0.30479 meters) record. There are also 40 foot container. In general, for almost every type of goods a containers available. There are ventilated hamburg sud schedules and naturally refrigerated container for perishable or frozen goods. The empty weight of the container is located at 2300 kg for a 20-foot container and 3900 kg for a 40-foot container. The load is at 20 foot containers approximately 21.7 tons at 33 m volume. A 40-foot container holds 26.5 t at 6