[moose07]

Good Pictures (Getty) and more story at source.

[proxy_user]

“But the main problem facing world shipping at the moment is that there’s too much of it for the amount of cargo in circulation. This has increased competition between firms.”

So the biggest ships can offer the lowest price?

[IronJack]

Any bets on how long before they lose one of these behemoths?

[tcrlaf]

And can be converted into a Chinese-flagged aircraft carrier in how many months?

[fso301]

What does it return with? I’m sure it doesn’t return empty?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— It can carry 19,100 standard 20ft containers -—

Crazy.

I watched “On the Waterfront” recently and noticed that containers weren’t standardized even in the 50s.

[Benito Cereno]

Let’s hope they designed this one so that the front doesn’t fall off.

[JennysCool]

That’s one impressive vessel!

[samtheman]

I saw a very large (seemed to me) tractor trailer last night with the words Dollar General on the side.

It’s hard to believe they sell that much of that crap. And that’s just one truck.

[SamAdams76]

These super-ships will continue to lower the cost of shipping and will make it possible to have virtually all manufacturing of durable goods done overseas (taking advantage of cheaper labor) so that the finished product can be shipped here on the cheap.

This will make product much more affordable to U.S. consumers while ensuring that labor unions are strangled the same way they've been strangling U.S. businesses for decades.

[cuban leaf]

CRAP! That thing is bigger than my house!

[Fester Chugabrew]

I think I left my wallet in the 23rd container from the stern, 12 levels down, 34th carton in, 6 layers down; the brown box with a bar code on it.

[Capt. Tom]

The new Panama canal locks which should be operational in 2016 are big enough to take that ship.

1400 feet long - 180 feet wide - and 60 feet deep. -tom