World's Biggest Capacity Container Ship In First UK Visit

9th March 2015

#Shipping - The world's biggest capacity container ship is currently docked in Felixstowe in its first ever visit to UK waters, as BBC News reports.

The MSC Oscar is somewhat shorter than the CSCL Globe which called at the same port in January, as previously reported on Afloat.ie – though it still has a deck the size of four football pitches.

However, it's in the weightlifting department where the 393m Oscar – launched from the Daewoo shipyard in South Korea last year – has the Globe beat, with capacity for 124 more containers.

The MSC Oscar's visit comes just a week after the largest ship to ever sail up the Thames visited the new DP World London Gateway just west of Canvey Island in Essex.

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