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Chinese container ship carrying 7,000 cheap electric cars docks in the UK

A massive Chinese container ship that set sail with 7,000 vehicles to flood the European market with cheap electric cars has ...
Stories by SWNS on MSN

Chinese car manufacturer sends mega-tanker to flood UK with cut-price cars

Chinese car manufacturer BYD has launched a 16-story container ship capable of transporting 9,200 vehicles as it seeks to dominate the UK electric car market – as British production slumps to a ...
WCBD

Record-breaking container ship, Marco Polo, arrives in Charleston on Friday

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – One of the largest container ships to ever call the east coast will arrive in Charleston on Friday. With an overall length of 1,300 feet and capacity of 16,022 TEU, the ...
Post and Courier

Charleston port preparing to host its latest biggest mega-ship

In a maritime industry where size increasingly matters, the Port of Charleston is getting ready to take things up a notch. The CMA CGM Marco Polo is scheduled to call on the port in May, eclipsing the ...
SlashGear

The Absurd Number Of Containers That Fit On A Container Ship

Container ships are an astonishing feat of human innovation and engineering. Their size, weight, and capability to carry gargantuan loads of cargo across large expanses of the ocean have ...
NPR

Cargo Overboard, Intense Rolling: The Risks Of Fully Loaded Mega-Container Ships

It would be tempting to hope the recent stranding of the 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal was a one-off — just a case of a very big ship getting stuck in a narrow ...
Business Insider

The US is spending billions of dollars deepening port harbors to make room for 'mega' container ships that are only getting bigger

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