CMA CGM Bougainville
CMA CGM Bougainville is container ship, built in 2015 by Samsung Heavy Industries for CMA CGM on French Asia Line. The vessel was the largest container carrier operating under the flag of France. The vessel is the largest container ship in the world at the time of her launch in August 2015, having maximum capacity for 18,000 TEU with 1,254 reefer plugs.
Design and engineering
The boxship CMA CGM Bougainville together with her five sister-vessels is the flagship for the French container line CMA CGM. The ship has overall length of, width of and summer draft of. The deadweight of the container carrier is, while the gross tonnage is. The boxship CMA CGM Bougainville has maximum capacity for 18,000 TEU with 1,254 reefer plugs.The CMA BGM Bougainville is the first container ship in the world to deploy the TRAXENS technology, a system that monitors and tracks containers throughout the journey of the ship. The TRAXENS technology, developed by a French startup company, make use of built-in relay antennas in each container to communicate with the communication hub of the ship.