- Who
- Kooringa
- What
- first first
- Where
- Australia (Newcastle)
- When
- 1964
The 5,925 tons gross Kooringa completed in 1964 by New South Wales State Dockyard, Newcastle for Australia’s Associated Steamships Pty was the first to be designed and built as a cellular container ship. Measuring 126.2 m overall on a beam of 19.1 m (414 by 62.6 ft), it was employed in the Melbourne-Fremantle trade and carried 20-ton containers in fixed-guide cells which could be loaded or discharged simultaneously using the ship’s two travelling gantry cranes. It was sold in 1976 and after two further name changes was scrapped at Nantong in November 1992.
