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Malaccamax
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Malaccamax is a naval architecture term for the largest ships capable of fitting through the Straits of Malacca. The restriction is caused by the shallow point on the Strait, where minimum depth is 25 m, 5m deeper than the Sunda Strait's 20m maximum depth. A post malaccamax ship would need to circumnavigate Australia, use the Lombok Strait, or use the proposed yet-unbuilt Kra Canal.
Bulk carriers and supertankers have been built to this size, and the term is chosen for very large crude carriers (VLCC).[1] Not constructed yet but envisioned, a Malaccamax container ship would be 470 m long and 60 m wide, with 20 m of draft with a 300,000 DWT for 18,000 TEUs.[2] The ports growth requirements could be leading to the creation of new terminals dedicated to those ships.[3]
- ^ NKK Corporation (september 2002). "Malacca-max Oil Tanker Delivered". Press release.
- ^ Richard G. Roenbeck, St. Paul Global Marine (16 September 2003). Containership losses due to head-sea parametric rolling. Seville conference. International Union of Marine Insurance.
- ^ Container Transhipment and Demand for Container Terminal Capacity in Scotland. Scottish Executive (03 September 2004).
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| Dry Cargo Ships: | Bulk carrier · Container ship · Reefer ship · RORO Ship |  |
| Tankers: | Petroleum tanker · Chemical tanker · Coastal trading vessel | |
| Passenger ship: | Cruise ship · Cruiseferry · Ferry · Cable layer · Tugboat · Dredger · Barge | |
| Panamax · Capesize · Seawaymax · Handymax · Handysize · Aframax · Suezmax · Malaccamax · VLCC · ULCC | ||
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