Megaships That Reshaped The Global Economy

On August 16, 2006, five tugboats dragged Emma Maersk from a Danish shipyard and towed her backward to the sea.
The length of four soccer fields, her keel nearly a hundred feet below her deck, Emma was far larger than any container ship ever before ordered and by far the most expensive.
She was a bet on globalization: By transporting a container more cheaply than any other vessel afloat.
she and her six sister ships were expected to stimulate even faster growth in international trade.
It...