I did not forget in the beginning of April about the 2020 calendar enhancement; there were just too any things going on! So today I both catch up, and get ahead. And according to my accounting robot, today I post for the 4,500th time. Champagne is spilling all over my editor’s floor, but he’s not sharing.
YM World came in last April as Anthem of the Seas was departing. If one keeps records with the goal of tracking change, few industries have changed as profoundly as the cruise industry has in the past year, and all that in the past two months.
Truly YM World, an ULCV,is huge. But earlier this week, MSC Anna sailed under the Golden Gate, over 100′ longer, almost 40′ wider, giving her a total teu capacity of over 19k, compared with around 14k here. That 5000 teu difference equals the total capacity of an average container ship serving the sixth boro 10 years ago.
The May calendar page features James D Moran nosing up against a pink magenta wall.
Here she comes in to meet off the starboard side.
Then she matches speed
and comes alongside to drop off the docking pilot.
All photos, WVD.
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May 1, 2020 at 12:13 am
George Schneider
Although that “Magenta” color of Ocean Network Express looks a bit strange on ships, I think there’s a very valid overcast to it. And I think the term “Pink” is suitable, too.
I’m just reading in 1965 where people are amazed that Japan Line is dropping the “MARU’ from it’s names and adopting the commercialized concept of any two Anglicized words, in their case starting with “JAPAN.” These days, we never see MARU on a trans-oceanic ship anymore.
Now, as the three Japanese companies team up, and are looking for a new image that disconnects from the past, an attention-getting new paint job is called for. And what fits the situation better than “Cherry Blossom Pink?”