[Old Sarge]

Designing a ship that’s too big to be handled by the ports.

That’s like building an SUV that’s too wide for the highways.

[showme_the_Glory]

We’re gonna need a bigger boat? Nevermind.

[Hardraade]

Find the container holding the ten-megatonner.

5-year project.

[martin_fierro]

That's a shipload of ship.

[rarestia]

Holy crap. That’s 8 ft. short of a quarter mile long ship!

[Joe 6-pack]

The day this ship is commissioned will become a Somalian national holiday .

[CrazyIvan]

That’s a carrier and an escort destroyer combined.

[martin_fierro]

[Oatka]

Capable of carrying 16pc more cargo than Maersk's largest vessel currently plying the oceans, the Triple E class was designed to cut costs through economies of scale.

There should be some traffic first. From Wiki:
"The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the index provides "an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea. Taking in 23 shipping routes measured on a timecharter basis, the index covers Handysize, Supramax, Panamax, and Capesize dry bulk carriers carrying a range of commodities including coal, iron ore and grain."

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I have a distant cousin who is a big shot at MAERSK. He has more money than God.

If I was him, I would have retired decades ago.

[count-your-change]

There’s a sort of pleasant quaintness to old movies showing tough looking dock workers loading cargo with big nets and muscle power.

[Carriage Hill]

Didn't work so well, once before:

[Mike Darancette]

...capable of holding more than 18,000 standard 20ft shipping containers.

That is a lot of immigrants.