Very Large Container Ship
The term Very Large Container Ship (VLCS) refers to the group of container ships with a slot capacity of around 8,000 standard containers ( TEU ) and above.
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The size specification refers to container ships that can transport between 8,000 and 10,000 TEU. Depending on the definition, the term also includes ships with even greater capacity - these are otherwise referred to as Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS). The first ship types of this size were the "K" class ships built by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft from 1996 and the "S" class units that followed from 1997 . The first ships that exceeded the 8000 TEU mark according to officially announced values were the units of the OOCL SX class , which were delivered from 2003 .
Web links
- Very Large Container Ship at The Freight Forwarding Company (English)
- BRS-Alphaliner report: The fifth generation of VLCS and the commoditization of transport by Barry Rogliano Salles from May 2001 (English)