Explorer-class container ship

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title: "Explorer-class container ship" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["container-ship-classes", "explorer-class-container-ships", "ships-of-cma-cgm", "ships-built-by-daewoo-shipbuilding-&-marine-engineering", "ships-built-by-samsung-heavy-industries"] description: "China/South Korea-built French cargo vessel" topic_path: "engineering" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer-class_container_ship" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary China/South Korea-built French cargo vessel ::

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Field	Value
sclass	2
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	2010-07-13 CMA CGM Christophe Colomb IMG 5413a.jpg
image_caption	CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
builders	Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China
operators	CMA CGM
built_range	2009–
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Container ship
tonnage
length	365 -
beam	51 m
draft	16 m
power	Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080kW)
propulsion	Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller
speed	24 -
capacity
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|sclass=2 |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=2010-07-13 CMA CGM Christophe Colomb IMG 5413a.jpg |image_caption=CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM

|section2={{Infobox ship/class overview |builders=Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China |operators=CMA CGM |class_before= |class_after= |subclasses= |built_range=2009– |in_service_range= |total_ships_building= |total_ships_planned= |total_ships_completed= |total_ships_canceled= |total_ships_active= |total_ships_laid_up= |total_ships_lost= |total_ships_retired= |total_ships_scrapped= |total_ships_preserved=

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=Container ship |tonnage= |displacement= |length=365 - |beam=51 m |height= |draft=16 m |depth= |power=Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080kW) |propulsion=Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller |speed=24 - |capacity= |crew= |notes= The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365 m long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 m and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the . Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.

The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.

Ships

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/CMA_CGM_Christophe_Colomb_07.jpg" caption="The superstructure of ''CMA CGM Cristophe Colomb'']]There exist four different ship types within the Explorer class."] ::

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No.	Ship	Yard number	IMO number	Delivery	Status	ref	Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (13830 TEU)	Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (16020 TEU)	Samsung Heavy Industries (17722 TEU)	Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industries (17859 TEU)
1	{{ship	CMA CGM Christophe Colomb}}	4156	9453559	10 November 2009	in service
2	{{ship	CMA CGM Amerigo Vespucci}}	4157	9454395	21 July 2010	in service
3	{{ship	CMA CGM Corte Real}}	4158	9454400	16 August 2010	in service
4	{{ship	CMA CGM Lapérouse}}	4159	9454412	10 September 2010	in service
5	{{ship	CMA CGM Magellan}}	4160	9454424	28 September 2010	in service
6	{{ship	CMA CGM Marco Polo}}	4161	9454436	5 November 2012	in service
7	{{ship	CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt}}	4162	9454448	16 April 2013	in service
8	{{ship	CMA CGM Jules Verne}}	4163	9454450	30 April 2013	in service
9	{{ship	CMA CGM Kerguelen}}	2092	9702132	31 March 2015	in service
10	{{ship	CMA CGM Georg Forster}}	2093	9702144	2 June 2015	in service
11	{{ship	CMA CGM Bougainville}}	2094	9702156	25 August 2015	in service
12	{{ship	CMA CGM Zheng He}}	H6001	9706906	11 September 2015	in service
13	{{ship	CMA CGM Vasco de Gama}}	H6002	9706889	27 July 2015	in service
14	{{ship	CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin}}	H6003	9706891	4 December 2015	in service
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References

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