Evergreen’s container vessel Ever Greet successfully docked in the West Flanders port in Zeebrugge, Belgium on 17 July.
Below the water level, the boxship of 399.98 meters long and 58.80 meters wide had a draft of 16.3 meters, which is 10 centimeters deeper than the previous record. Ever Greet docked after a long journey from Sri Lanka and had 17,989 TEU onboard. The extra centimeters of draft allow ships to carry more cargo.
In Zeebrugge, 400 TEUs were unloaded, just enough to reduce the ship’s...
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