CMA CGM Vasco de Gama

CMA CGM Vasco de Gama is an Explorer-class container ship built for CMA CGM.

It is named after Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama.

CMA CGM had originally planned to name the ship after Benjamin Franklin.

[1] The ship was delivered in July 2015, it is among the world's largest containerships, at 17,859 TEU.

Container ship CMA CGM Vasco da Gama in the port of Hamburg in September 2015