According to CCTV news on January 9, on the morning of January 9, the world's largest container ship named "Oriental Valencia" smoothly left the waters of the Nantong section of the Yangtze River to the relevant waters for trial. The ship is independently developed, designed and built by a shipping company in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, and is also China's first world's largest container ship to be completed in 2024.

    The ship has a total length of 399.99 meters, a width of 61.3 meters and a depth of 33.2 meters, with a maximum cargo capacity of 24,188 standard containers, which can reach the height of a 22-story ordinary residential building when fully loaded. It integrates today's cutting-edge ship construction technology, and a number of indicators have reached the world's leading level.

    In order to help the ship smooth sea trial, Nantong Border Inspection Station arranged a special service team to board the ship, through the window "one-stop" service, synchronous hull inspection and other measures to ensure that the ship leaves the port "zero waiting" and "zero delay".

    According to the official wechat signal of COSCO Shipping on January 6, on January 5, COSCO's Orient Overseas Container Shipping Co., LTD. (" Orient Overseas ") welcomed another new 24188TEU giant freighter as a new member of the fleet. The new ship was named "Oriental Valencia" at the shipyard of COSCO Shipping Kawasaki Marine Engineering Co., LTD. (NACKS) in Nantong.

    The ship is the seventh in a series of twelve environmentally friendly 24188 TEU vessels ordered by OOCL and the first new vessel to enter service by OOCL in 2024, serving the company's Far East-Northwest Europe AEU1 line.

    According to the official wechat account of Nantong COSCO Shipping Kawasaki NACKS, OOCL, as the most well-known global brand in Hong Kong, China and one of the largest international integrated container shipping and logistics companies in the world, has about 130 operating outlets in more than 100 major cities around the world, and its modern fleet shuttle hundreds of routes around the world. To build an important channel for global trade, with customer-oriented logistics solutions, excellence in service quality, continuous innovation of the work spirit renowned at home and abroad.

    24188 TEU super large container ship is the largest container ship on the market at present, for the national high-tech ship list products and Jiangsu Province major scientific and technological achievements transformation project, can be called the pearl in the field of ship design, only a few shipyards in the world have the design and construction capability of this type of ship.