法国集装箱航运巨头达飞集团（CMA CGM）在其超大型集装箱船“马可波罗”号的船首配备了挡风装置。据悉，这一挡风板能够改善船舶的空气动力性能，从而降低燃料消耗，减少船舶碳足迹。对此，达飞表示：“我们将通过试验进行测试，以此决定是否将这一装置安装在达飞的其他船舶上。”事实上，日本海洋网联船务（ONE）在去年就已为其超大型集装箱船“ONE Trust”安装了船首挡风板，达飞则紧随其后。各大航运公司考虑将这一装置作为能源转型战略的一部分，帮助船队达到即将生效的航运减排法规要求。

        French container shipping major CMA CGM has equipped its ultra-large containership CMA CGM Marco Polo with a new windshield prototype. The device improves a vessel’s aerodynamics resulting in lower fuel consumption and thus contributing to a lower carbon footprint of the vessel, the shipowner said. “If the results are conclusive, the same windshield will be installed in other CMA CGM vessels,” CMA CGM announced. Actually, CMA CGM follows in the footsteps of Ocean Network Express (ONE) which has also fitted the so-called ‘wind deflector’ on board its containership ONE Trust. The device is being trialed as part of the shipowner’s energy transition strategy as the company looks at ways of reducing its carbon footprint and meeting environmental regulations set to enter into force.

container n. 容器；集装箱；货柜 

美/kənˈteɪnər/ 英/kənˈteɪnə(r)/

container由前缀con-“一起，完全”，词根tain“持有，抓住”以及名词后缀-er构成，意为“能抓在一起，或完全装下某物的物体”，即“容器、集装箱”。

ultra-large containership n. 超大型集装箱船

Tips：超大型集装箱船指标准集装箱容量为10,000TEU及以上的集装箱船。由于集装箱运输领域激烈的竞争格局压缩了市场，市场份额和规模经济效益渐渐成为集装箱航运公司追求的目标。其回应市场需求增长的最简单方式，就是将更多运力投放至相关航线，尽可能多地承揽增加的货量，推进集装箱船大型化。超大型集装箱就是在这样的背景下应运而生。