This is the container ship Aristomenis. At 1150’ and with a capacity of 9954 TEU, she’s classified as a Post Panamax ship (most ships are built in size categories built to the capacity of major lock systems, such as at the Panama Canal), and is here in California after loading up in Shanghai, China, about a month ago. She’s made previous stops at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, and now at the Port of Oakland. Actually, as I write this, she’s just getting underway again, bound for Kobe, Japan.
This video was all shot yesterday afternoon, as two container cranes worked the forward holds. Eventually I’d love to do a longer time-lapse something like this (only, way better) but this is my first go at it. Just about everything involving these giant vessels happens SO SLOWLY that unless you watch for a while, you can hardly see anything moving. Most of the footage in this video is sped up between 8x and 30x.
Aristomenis is managed by Hapag Lloyd, and here in port, is handled by Norton Lilly agent Kirill Roditi.