CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin
IMO 9321535 · MMSI 228309900
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- Type
- Container
- Flag
- 🇫🇷 France · compare
- Year built
- 2015
- Builder
- DSME
- GT
- 176,914
- DWT
- 187,600
- LOA
- 396 m
- Beam
- 54 m
- Draft
- 15.5 m
- Class
- Bureau Veritas
- Owner
- CMA CGM Group
- Manager
- CMA CGM Group
18,000-TEU ship; notable first-ever call by a vessel of that size at a US West Coast port.
Vessel history
China-built Anglo-French cargo ship CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin leaves the port of Hamburg in July 2016 CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is an Explorer-class . Delivered in November 2015,[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMACGMBenjaminFranklin#citenote-mm-3) she is named after Benjamin Franklin , one of the Founding Fathers of the United States . She is one of the largest container cargo vessels, capable of carrying 18,000 TEU
Source: CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin · cached via Firecrawl
PSC detention history
No detentions in the last 2 years.
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