Samsung Heavy Industries has built the world's largest container ship, the 9600 TEU* Xin Los Angeles, for China's CGS, the ship's new owner. Samsung had previously built the world's largest container ship just one year ago.
This ship is 321 meters long and 46 meters wide. It can carry as many as 9,600 20 foot containers. The weight of this volume is equivalent to 1.3 million 29 inch color TVs, or 50 million mobile phones.
SHI has so far built some 181 container ships, while receiving orders for 33 ships out of the 9,000 TEU plus container ship orders received in the global shipbuilding industry, thereby taking up 45% market share.
"They key technology in container ship construction is to carry more containers under the same conditions. We have already developed 12,000 TEU container ships, and are trying to get new orders for these ships. At the same time, we will continue to focus on research and development, so as to steadily maintain our number one position in the world shipbuilding industry," CEO Kim Jing Wan said.
*One TEU is a unit of measure equal to one standard twenty foot container.
