As reported in the April 2005 edition of WorldCargo News (p4), Dutch consulting enginers Royal Haskoning is promoting a floating container crane concept based on a kind of catamaran hull.
One of the arguments put forward by Haskoning is that ship sizes are going up dramatically and rapidly towards the suezmax limit of 12,500 TEU, but mainly in the height and width dimensions. Ship length is not increasing in proportion to ship size. In broad terms, capacity of a modern panamax ship is around 15 TEU/ m of length while capacity of a suezmax ship is around 34 TEU/m of length....
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