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Baltimax is a Astramar Group / Primorsk Port / Restrictions / Tankers
/ref> The Northern Port in
naval architecture
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term for the largest ship measurements capable of entering and leaving the Baltic Sea
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in a laden condition.
It is the Great Belt
The Great Belt (, ) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (''Sjælland'') and Funen (''Fyn'') in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits.
Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was served by the Great Belt ferries fr ...
route that allows the largest ships. The limit is a draft of 15.4 metres and an air draft
Air draft (or air draught) is the vertical distance from the surface of the water to the highest point on a vessel. This is similar to the '' deep draft'' of a vessel which is measured from the surface of the water to the deepest part of the h ...
of 65 metres (limited by the clearance of the east bridge of the Great Belt Fixed Link
The Great Belt Bridge () or Great Belt fixed link () is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of a road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel between Zealand and ...
). The length can be around 240 m and the width around 42 m. This gives a weight of around 100,000 metric ton.
Nevertheless, there are also certain larger ship types plying the Baltic Sea. Particularly the so-called ''B-Max'' crude oil tanker with more than 205,000 tons deadweight (68 m width, 325 m length) and the Maersk Triple E class
The Triple E class is a family of very large container ships with a capacity of more than 18,000 TEUs, which are owned and operated by Maersk Line.
With a length of , when they were built they were the largest container ships in the world, bu ...
container ship, 400 m length and 165,000 metric tons deadweight.
The Öresund allows only 8 m draft and is no alternative for large ships. The shortcut Nord-Ostsee-Kanal allows 9.5 m draft.
Furthermore, many ports limit ship size. The iron ore ports of Luleå
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(11 m, to be deepened to 13 m) and Kemi
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(10 m) and the large port of KlaipÄ—da
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(14.3 m to be deepened to 15.4 in the early future) have less draft than Baltimax. The largest port is Primorsk Primorsk may refer to:
* Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast, a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly Koivisto or Björkö
* Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly Fischhausen
* Primorsk, Krasno ...
which has 15 m draft, similar to Baltimax./ref> The Northern Port in
Gdańsk
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can take the 300,000 ton 15 m draft ships.
See also
*Ports of the Baltic Sea
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Container traffic is given in terms of Twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo. For ...
References