At Night The World's Biggest Ship Leaves Hamburg (August 2015)
395 meters long and a beam of 60 meters. Capacity of 19,224 TEU. The MSC Zoe is about 60 meters longer than the World's largest aircraft carrier and 50 meters longer than the biggest cruise ship. Fully loaded she can carry up to 190 million iPads.
She left at around 09.20 pm on August 03, 2015, after she had been christened in Hamburg the day before. It seems unlikely that the Port of Hamburg will see her all too often, given its cacacity restraints. And I guess, the heaviliy disputed plans for the Elbe deepening will not change much. The MSC Zoe got app. 5,000 loaded container boxes on board in Hamburg (according to press reports).
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It is hard to fathom the enormity of this ship. It is amazing something that massive floats, and could move. This is nearly twice as long and twice as wide, as the Titanic! A real wonder. :-)
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