![]() It is more or less today's upper limit for these vessels. If you cast your eyes over a list of the largest container ships in the world, you'll soon notice that they are all 400m (1,320ft) in length or just less than that, and about 60m (200ft) wide. Just two of them stacked vertically would be nearly as tall as the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Many more are currently under construction. The 399.9m-long (1,320ft) and 61.5m-wide (203ft) vessel is a true behemoth, but there are dozens of container ships of a similar size sailing today. To date, no other ship has carried such a large volume of shipping containers – the equivalent of 21,710 20ft (6m) containers. When the Ever Ace, one of the largest container ships in the world, eased out of Yantian port on 14 August last year and manoeuvred gingerly into the South China Sea, she had embarked upon a record-breaking voyage. ![]()
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