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[Watch] The MSC Tessa: Inside the World’s Largest Container Ship

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The MSC Tessa mega ship from the China State Shipbuilding Corporation has been delivered to the Mediterranean Shipping Company. It can load up to 24,116 TEU containers at once, stacked up to 26 deep, on a deck area roughly equal to four football fields.

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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...

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