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 Triple E-class container ship. Advanced simulators were built to help crews learn how to handle the new ships.

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.

Ships
There exist four different ship types within the Explorer class.