Jacques Saadé-class container ship


The Jacques Saadé class is a group of nine container ships each with a capacity of 23,000 TEUs being built by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation for French shipping company CMA CGM. Construction on the first two began in July 2018 in Shanghai by Jiangnan Shipyard and Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. The first ship was launched in September 2019.

History

CSSC and CMA CGM signed a contract to produce the ships on 19 September 2017. The value of the contract was worth an estimated USD 1.2 billion at the time.
Construction of the first two ships began on 26 July 2018. The first ship, the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, named after the founder of CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, was launched in September 2019.

List of ships

Specifications

The vessels will be 400 meters long, 61.3 meters wide, and 33.5 meters deep. They will each have a dead weight capacity of 220,000 DWT.
The engines will be fueled by liquefied natural gas. The decision to use LNG as a fuel is in anticipation of the upcoming 2020 IMO regulation limiting sulfur emissions.