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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753  
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My last ship was quite small by today’s size - 292m long and 4800 twenty foot containers, todays ships are 400m long and 24,000 20 foot containers. I’ve sailed in ships with $54,000 a day. As Master in them it was part my many responsibilities to try to keep it below that. The company I worked for for the last 14 years was Maersk Line - their owned fleet was 360 ships and increasing monthly - they owned every one of their ships, no financing. Of new tonnage while I worked for them. Their newest ships cost around $200,000,000 a piece and they were buying 18-20 at a time.......... In addition to the owned fleet there were some 200 ships on charter and then further joint ventures with other companies and the ship sharing with them all in all the entire fleet numbers more than 700 ships varying in side from small coastal container ships around 200 containers capacity doing coastal/ North Sea feeding services through to the monsters at 23000 20ft units. The monster ships have actually lower running costs just by virtue of their size/ capacity and crew costs are the same as the small ones as they have only between 15 and 19 crew, the same as the coastal ships. Economy of scale comes into play.
They had the cash in the bank from owning the only licence to extract oil and gas from the Danish sector of the North Sea for many years and charging Maersk Tax on every barrel they drilled. My last ship was Maersk Utah - I only sailed for 4 months last winter in her to between USA East Coast and Europe with the Christmas period spent around the ports of the Eastern Medi https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...AERSK_UTAH I spent 6 years in the ship before that, trading to West Africa from Spain and Portugal then we changed to Northern Europe to Montreal and Halifax all year round as she was an ice strengthened ship and could ice break up to 1m thick sea ice at 18 knots.....she was Maersk Patras https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...RSK_PATRAS But prior to her I was sailing in 10,000 x 20ft capacity ships Maersk Seville and Maersk Sydney https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...SK_SEVILLE https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...RSK_SYDNEY Today’s biggest ships are these things https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...ICH_MAERSK One of the biggest ships today I retired after 46 years at sea on March 31st this year, the last 16 years were in command as Master Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come 2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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29th Aug 2020 2:04pm |
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| NiallMeehan Member Since: 18 Mar 2016 Location: Castlebellingham Posts: 58  
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That's an amazing career you had Tim 130 TDCI High Capacity Pick up
D250 SE HT 110 Hybrid LWT on RR chassis, 3.5 v8 |
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29th Aug 2020 4:02pm |
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| spudfan Member Since: 10 Sep 2007 Location: Co Donegal Posts: 4646
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What do you think about when you are standing there holding the fuel nozzle into the filler neck?  1982 88" 2.25 diesel
1992 110 200tdi csw -Zikali 2008 110 2.4 tdci csw-Zulu 2011 110 2.4 tdci csw-Masai |
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29th Aug 2020 4:04pm |
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| StructuralDefect Member Since: 08 Aug 2020 Location: Middletown, Ohio Posts: 44 
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My baby has arrived. The 9th one to come in to JLR Cincinnati, OH. Took it for a drive today but won't finish the deal till friday. 2020 Defender S, P300 in Fuji White w/black ext. pack. Ebony leather heated front/rear seats. Comfort & conv. pack. Towing pack. Cold climate pack. Panoramic roof & expedition roof rack. Classic mud flaps. Fog lights. 19 inch 6 spoke w/off road tires. Clear sight rear view mirror. Sirius XM. Delivery 9/4/20
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2nd Sep 2020 1:30am |
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| jsinclair Member Since: 11 Aug 2020 Location: Brisbane Posts: 46 
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excuse me... 280 tonnes of fuel per day? |
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2nd Sep 2020 4:29am |
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| zilch Member Since: 11 Sep 2019 Location: Whitsundays & Sydney Posts: 816
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must have captained the Maersk equivalent of the P400  yet another pommie bar steward down under
MY20 110 P400 SE Defender MY10 3.0 RR Sport |
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2nd Sep 2020 5:25am |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
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Yes, prior to the fuel price rocketing I was sailing in ships that burned 600tonnes a day........... often steam ships but also motor ships that had a service speed in excess of 30knots. One class of ships I sailed in were built as steam ships and had a fuel capacity of 12,000 tonnes and when sailing during the time when the Suez Canal was closed had to go from Europe to Japan via the Cape if Good Hope - they would bunker in Rotterdam and would require to take another 12000 tonnes in Tokyo to be able to get back to Europe via the Panama Canal - they were powered by 2 sets of steam turbines one “engine” for each propellor. They were re-engined to 2 big Diesel engines and fuel consumption reduced to 300tpd flat out but also their speed was reduced to 25 knots form 33. We now have monster ships that flat out at 19 knots burn less than 300 tonnes a day to carry 23000 x 20 foot containers - those steam turbine ships of the 1970’s only carried 4000 x 20ft containers maximum!
You might find the stats in this item about one of Maersk’s latest builds - a series of 31 super eco ships costing around $190 million a pop....... 2 x 32000bhp 14 cylinder prime movers but very low daily consumption (relatively speaking!) compared to older ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_E-class_container_ship Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come 2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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2nd Sep 2020 7:47am |
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| wokkaman Member Since: 18 Sep 2019 Location: Hampshire Posts: 8 
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Mrs Wokka couldn't wait to pose on the roof rack
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2nd Sep 2020 12:57pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
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Lovely colour scheme
which interior colour did you go for? Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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2nd Sep 2020 2:26pm |
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| wokkaman Member Since: 18 Sep 2019 Location: Hampshire Posts: 8
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Black with the light headlining
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2nd Sep 2020 2:34pm |
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| StructuralDefect Member Since: 08 Aug 2020 Location: Middletown, Ohio Posts: 44
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How much does the rack add to the height of the vehicle? 2020 Defender S, P300 in Fuji White w/black ext. pack. Ebony leather heated front/rear seats. Comfort & conv. pack. Towing pack. Cold climate pack. Panoramic roof & expedition roof rack. Classic mud flaps. Fog lights. 19 inch 6 spoke w/off road tires. Clear sight rear view mirror. Sirius XM. Delivery 9/4/20
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2nd Sep 2020 10:54pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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From one extreme to another ~ apparently the smallest vessel in the US navy! Click image to enlarge |
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8th Sep 2020 6:31am |
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| zilch Member Since: 11 Sep 2019 Location: Whitsundays & Sydney Posts: 816
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still waiting..
 my expected delivery was in approx 10 days, i reckon that is now at least 20+
Interesting the Tonsberg did not hang around in New Zealand that long
Click image to enlarge yet another pommie bar steward down under MY20 110 P400 SE Defender MY10 3.0 RR Sport |
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12th Sep 2020 7:38am |
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| Hedgehog Member Since: 06 Sep 2020 Location: Frankonia Posts: 12 
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Ordered wednesday afternoon a 2021 six-cylinder diesel HSE in white / acorn.
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Defender HSE i6 D 7 seater in fuji white with acorn windsor leather Jeep Wrangler JKU Sahara Indian Summer - gone Disco 5 Luxury Aruba / Light Oyster- gone Discovery 4 - gone but not forgotten - Discovery 3 with some add ons - gone |
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12th Sep 2020 6:12pm |
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