Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 6:21 pm
Honest....could Saint John even think about handling this 24000 TEU m/v One Innovation ?
The scantling draught of the ONE Innovation is 16.5 meters. It's length is 400 meters and it's width is 61.4 meters.
The scantling draft is the absolute deepest draft the ship is designed for.
Current capacities for the 2 Rodney berths:
South berth: 400m, draft 12.2m
North berth: 345m, draft 17.1m.
The current max TEU capacity of ships is 14000. So it goes without saying that it isn't in the current spec. More cranes are to be added to get to 800K TEU capacity, but I don't know if they are planning to upgrade the spec from the current cranes.
The current max width the cranes can reach is 21 rows. I believe the ONE Innovation is 24 rows wide, so an upgraded crane capacity would be required.
So, not today, or this year, but it looks possible in the future. Disclaimer - I am not connected to those who make those decisions.
The ship could be turned in the harbour with approx. 100 meters to spare on each end. I am not sure about how deep the harbour actually is today, but they turn 300 meter ships regularly in the harbour these days, and the berth is dredged for 17.1 meters so maybe the harbour is dredged to that also.
On top of this, there was a comment made by Doug Smith (CEO, DP World Canada) that leads me to believe they are already planning to dredge deeper in the harbour.
https://youtu.be/8iEyYV9Dgcg?si=DDXs64c1ZWQgDl-8&t=824
His statement was ""It's not well known how deep it really can be here". I think they know exactly how deep they can and need to dredge for the future, and he was throwing hints out how they are going to proceed.
One thing I know for sure - Montreal will never see a ship anywhere close to that size.