Port of Felixstowe welcomes the largest Methanol enabled container ship Ane Maersk. 25th March 2024

[@petehoskins1267]

The future of cargo, runs on methanol, bridge & accommodation all the way forward and stack at the very stern port side. Excellent post. 👍

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac wow look at that

[@Mike-zx1kx]

Something about Ane Maersk and future for cargo ships in the transition to emission free shipping. The worlds largest transition project were signed in Jan 2023 between Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and will transition 220 Million Europeans away from fossil/nuclear fuel and do so by raising offshore mega windmills in the North Sea. On top the worlds largest green hydrogen production. Green hydrogen made from emission free electricity and water and when burned it only emits, water. A small one digit percentage of the hydrogen will be sued to ensure emission free energy also when the wind does not blow. Rest will be sold for hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen for car, trucks, trains, planes AND ships. Maersk already have plans for hydrogen driven ships. This methanol driven ship in the clip are the cargo ship with lowest emissions on the planet but when the hydrogen ships come it will be emission free except for oil to grease moving parts in the engine. The above ship and the next generation of hydrogen ships thus do not consume ANY bunker oil. I do not know about you but I think that is pretty awesome! Maybe humanity have a chance to survive itself after all.

[@Einherjar-DK]

Bridge, accommodation and funnel placement, allowed them to fit in an additional 650 TEU (20 foot) containers.

[@davidtaylor8458]

The way to go in maximising cargo space. Great design

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac and it has something

[@AndreiTupolev]

Forward position of the bridge seems a very good idea, even if it does make her look like a gigantic offshore support vessel 😂

[@tylermcintyre1454]

Tyler Mac yes indeed

[@nicholasmarshall3191]

Blimey that is huge! My wife and I just returned from our first cruise, from Miami to the Caribbean. We cruised on the MSC Seascape. Very enjoyable, and impressed with the gargantuan vessel.

[@deanocable]

The Seascape is quite large but looks really nice onboard. It's probably a bit too big for my liking, too many people onboard. Glad you enjoyed your cruise.

[@Mr.-Wint]

The real reason for the bridge up front is to accommodate sufficient space for the Methanol tanks as they need to be twice the size of fossil oil ones due to the fact that Methanol only provides half the energi compared to oil !

[@yirgach]

Exactly! I'm sure the customers appreciate the extra time it takes to move anywhere. There won't be too many of these built as using corn for food instead of fuel becomes obvious.

[@clausvind8010]

Not sure just moving stuff around increases the available volume....I think your comment is incorrect.

[@SMX815]

Great video & very informative 🙏👍

[@GaryL3803]

For those interested in reality - The ship switches to Methanol only when entering the territorial waters of countries which require it to not to use the more polluting bunker oil. That's why its a dual-fuel vessel. Just window dressing as 98% of it's voyage is using the bunker oil.

[@1Fmarcel]

I love that ship.

[@9_19Ming]

I love MAERSK 💙💙

[@jamesburnside3023]

Great video enjoyed

[@Mike-zx1kx]

Something about Ane Maersk and future for cargo ships in the transition to emission free shipping. The worlds largest transition project were signed in Jan 2023 between Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and will transition 220 Million Europeans away from fossil/nuclear fuel and do so by raising offshore mega windmills in the North Sea. On top the worlds largest green hydrogen production. Green hydrogen made from emission free electricity and water and when burned it only emits, water. A small one digit percentage of the hydrogen will be sued to ensure emission free energy also when the wind does not blow. Rest will be sold for hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen for car, trucks, trains, planes AND ships. Maersk already have plans for hydrogen driven ships. This methanol driven ship in the clip are the cargo ship with lowest emissions on the planet but when the hydrogen ships come it will be emission free except for oil to grease moving parts in the engine. The above ship and the next generation of hydrogen ships thus do not consume ANY bunker oil. I do not know about you but I think that is pretty awesome! Maybe humanity have a chance to survive itself after all.

[@allanyonson7142]

Super big woww😮😊❤

[@simul8guy75]

I want to see some video from the bridge of that ship in heavy seas...

[@dungphamvan1789]

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[@Margagigi-ep2kv]

For those who do not work in this field of activity, everything looks beautiful from the outside. Accommodation forward, difficult and challenging living and working conditions for crew, especially for engine department crew. UMS system for engine department. Accommodation forward engine room, ECR aft ??!!! Duty engineer and duty oiler will run from accommodation - forward to ECR - enginee room - aft to deal with the alarms during UMS???!!! How it will the UMS service be done? How many engineers and engine ratings are in the crew on board. Methanol is liquid at atmospheric temperatures and pressures and hence bunkering is almost similar to conventional fuel oils, although the low-flashpoint and toxic properties require additional equipment and operational procedures. One of the major disadvantage of methanol is its lower energy content per volume. Methanol requires fuel tanks approximately 2.5 times the size of HFO tanks for the same energy content, or 1.3 times larger than equivalent LNG tanks. This has consequences for the spatial arrangements on board and the trading range of methanol-powered vessels. As a result, its applicability is mainly for smaller ships, feeder container vessels, at least initially. Methanol is a low-flashpoint flammable liquid and should take additional precautions to prevent ignition due to electrical arcing. Methanol bunkering is a classic chemical tank cargo operation procedure, considering that methanol is a Dangerous Chemicals, it involves a much more complicated procedure than the conventional fuel, Inerting, Purging, etc. All these procedures involve adjacent installations, plus their operation and maintenance, installations that were usually found only on chemical tankers. In fact the container vessel powered by methanol becomes also small chemical tank ship. On board the chemical tankers, directly in charge of cargo operation ( safe loading, discharging and stowage of cargo) is an experienced Chief Mate. That's all he does on board, not maneuvers, not watch duty. On these container ships powered by methanol, the methanol bunkering operation is done by the engine department. Anyway, classic fuel remains to be bunkered, because methanol cannot be used alone as a fuel for two-stroke naval engines. Most current 2 strokes naval engines methanol requires a pilot fuel for efficient burning, so conventional fuel must be carried on board as well, doubling as fall-back fuel too.

[@AndreiTupolev]

So is the engine room right aft or is it in the normal 3/4 aft position and the exhaust uptakes are ducted to the funnel?

[@dtrain1634]

That’s epic 😮

[@knudkristensen4902]

Have you stopped using bulb bows on Maersk ships?

[@miroberries]

...awesome..

[@adriangarnham5436]

How many of the boxes are for Felixstowe?

[@davideddy5877]

The lifeboat is right near the back of the ship. How do you get from the forward block to that in an emervgency?

[@deanocable]

There's a life raft under the bridge but the main ones are further aft

[@davideddy5877]

@@deanocable I presume that using the life rafts would require jumping into the sea. The lifeboat is aft.

[@Dave-yu4ct]

How do you know where everyone is in an emergency....Oh will all be at the front..:)

[@deanocable]

@@Dave-yu4ct I'm sure they all have radios onboard so they know where everyone is

[@bambukouk]

very sensible design👍

[@deanocable]

Not in a force 10 storm.

[@seaviews192]

superb vid did you use a different camera than normal picture looked crystal clear

[@deanocable]

Same camera and same settings. I'm guessing the weather played its part for this video

[@Dave-yu4ct]

@@deanocable Something did it`s blurred..

[@petersmith4455]

hi, great video, but why have the clowns put the bridge and accommadation block at the the very front, in a very rough sea its going to cop it first. far better in the middle like some of them already are

[@deanocable]

It's so they can maximise the amount of teu she can carry. Having bridge on up on the bow means they can stack higher as visibility would be greatly improved

[@alexanderchessa1319]

built 2024 is not correct, very nice video, thank you.

[@deanocable]

According to ABS Register she was built 25th January 2024. The Registers are the most reliable information you can get with newbuilds

[@alexanderchessa1319]

@@deanocable very quick for a large ship 3 month.

[@k7u5r8t4]

@@alexanderchessa1319 Ane Mærsk was launched this year 2024. Obviously not build in one day!! Don't be that silly, please!

[@kennethgrindrod6438]

Very strange to have the lifeboat that far away from the accommodation as an ex seaman I wouldn’t be happy to sail on that one

[@fredliperson9171]

And 98% of it's cargo is made of some kind of petroleum-based ingredient! .. What a farce.😂

[@benconway9010]

I hope there’s no bridges in it’s way?!……..jeez can you imagine that ship hitting a bridge?? This ship is way bigger than the one that just took out the bridge in Baltimore

[@AndreiTupolev]

Much better visibility for the bridge crew though (of the ship I mean)

[@benconway9010]

@@AndreiTupolev yeah there is that 😁👍

[@_Ben4810]

That accomodation block looks utterly miserable to live & work in... Just 1 room deep only & takes on all the weather..?... 🤔

[@MrSchwabentier]

the depth of containership bridges has been like this for decades. They usually take up the space of one 40ft container

[@Sawa-xv8ul]

forward accommodation thank you but No thank you,forget about sleep for crew in bad weather

[@AndreiTupolev]

It would seem to need a lot of running 🏃‍♂️ to get to the lifeboat though

[@deanocable]

There's a life raft under the bridge. It's hard to spot

[@СергейПетрунин-з8б]

😮😮😮

[@alannorman6166]

This sounds a pretty dreadful comment but if this ship had been the vessel that hit the Baltimore bridge could envisage any survivors looking at the location of the bridge on this vessel having spent numerous hours at the port of Felixstowe at the quayside I believe these ships have really grown far to big to the extent they have become a bit like the giant supertankers of old

[@deanocable]

You are right in thinking that, survival rate wouldn't be great as the 1st row of containers were crumpled by the bridge falling on the vessel meaning survival rate would have drastically reduced. The scary thing is that this ship only what they call a medium to large ship. She only holds 16,000 odd teu whereas the world's largest holds 24,346teu

[@michaelcolley1631]

Great point.

[@GaleriKapal]

Position the bridgeUp front is the nightmare for engineer because is so far from accomodation and engine room

[@deanocable]

They may have e-scooters to get from one end of the ship to the other, some supertankers have bikes or scooters to travel around the ship

[@wilsonflood4393]

The real question is why we are shipping so much crap around the world.

[@deanocable]

We still buy what you call crap in the shops so the never ending supply chain doesn't stop. Ships will keep coming in to restock shelves in shops or in warehouses

[@Hagbard123]

I'm surprised they managed to arrive without losing any containers

[@deanocable]

Sometimes they do lose containers overboard in very rough seas. The record was on the One Apus with over 1800 lost and many stacks collapsed on the deck

[@michaelcolley1631]

The bridge placement certainly increases TEU capacity but the crews sleep quality will be considerably worse in adverse weather.

[@caseybrionessr.1444]

The bigger the size hauls the big volume of cargo and favour to the ship owner, how about the safety of the ship as well the environment.

[@sp2032]

As one who has sailed in all major classes of containerships from 1969 to present day ---- this has to be the ugliest! Efficient maybe, but UGLY!

[@maxifenix9979]

Bad design fir the Crew.

[@higherfordkid1625]

Thank goodness I spent my twelve years on ships, not this ugly barge.

[@GlobetruthFU]

"Methanol Enabled" is starting to sound like some pseudo-green EU double speak.

[@Mike-zx1kx]

Something about Ane Maersk and future for cargo ships in the transition to emission free shipping. The worlds largest transition project were signed in Jan 2023 between Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and will transition 220 Million Europeans away from fossil/nuclear fuel and do so by raising offshore mega windmills in the North Sea. On top the worlds largest green hydrogen production. Green hydrogen made from emission free electricity and water and when burned it only emits, water. A small one digit percentage of the hydrogen will be sued to ensure emission free energy also when the wind does not blow. Rest will be sold for hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen for car, trucks, trains, planes AND ships. Maersk already have plans for hydrogen driven ships. This methanol driven ship in the clip are the cargo ship with lowest emissions on the planet but when the hydrogen ships come it will be emission free except for oil to grease moving parts in the engine. The above ship and the next generation of hydrogen ships thus do not consume ANY bunker oil. I do not know about you but I think that is pretty awesome! Maybe humanity have a chance to survive itself after all.

[@robertbest4398]

Bad weather =rough ride on that thing accommodation on bow not good for sailors