Explorer-class container ship

The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM. The first five ships are 365 m long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 m and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Maersk Triple E Class. Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.[1]

CMA CGM Christophe Colomb, the first Explorer-class container ship ordered by CMA CGM
Class overview
Builders:	Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea; Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China
Operators:	CMA CGM
Built:	2009–
General characteristics
Type:	Container ship
Tonnage:	153,000–175,000 GT
Length:	365–396 m (1,198–1,299 ft)
Beam:	51 m (167 ft)
Draft:	16 m (52 ft)
Installed power:	Wärtsilä 14RT-flex96C (80,080 kW)
Propulsion:	Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller
Speed:	24–25 knots (44–46 km/h; 28–29 mph)
Capacity:	13,300–16,020 TEU

The ships are mostly named after explorers. Benjamin Franklin was not an explorer but made contributions to oceanography, Georg Forster was a naturalist and ethnologist who travelled with explorer James Cook, and Jules Verne was a novelist who wrote about explorations.