The CMA CGM Group has announced that the CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE has entered its fleet, becoming the largest containership in the world under the French flag. It is the fourth vessel of the 18,000-TEU series bearing the names of great explorers. She pays tribute to the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, who led, as Captain, the first French official world tour in the 18th century.

The vessel, delivered on August 25, 2015, is 400 m long”about 4 football fields end-to-end”and 54 m wide. And this giant of the seas has capacity to carry 18,000 TEUs.

The CMA CGM BOUGAINVILLE symbolises the dynamism of a French group that has become a world leader and key player in the global economy, highlighted a release.

Beyond her exceptional features, the vessel is equipped with all the latest environmental technologies, making her one of the world's greenest transportation solutions. Thanks to the latest environmental technologies onboard and the optimisation of hydrodynamics, the vessel's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions/km are historically low, according to the release.

The CO2 emissions average at only 37 g of CO2/km for each container, energy efficiency almost three times higher than recorded by the group's fleet 10 years ago, the release pointed out.

The vessel was scheduled to be in Shanghai on September 5, and, subsequently, in Port Klang on September 13, Suez on September 15 and Algeciras on October 1, to finally arrive at Le Havre on October 5, said the release.