![]() ![]() ![]() COSCO Shipping UniverseĬOSCO Shipping Universe is the world’s 7th-biggest container ship with 21237 TEU capacity. Today, we will be looking at a list of world’s Top 7 biggest container ships in 2021 based on their capacity, which is measured in TEU (Twenty-foot equivalent unit). Nowadays, the size of the container vessels have grown exponentially due to the rising demand of the cargo around the globe. The first commercially successful container vessel was “ Ideal X” which was converted from a T-2 oil tanker to a container ship and carried 58 containers from Port Newark, New Jersey. A twenty-foot equivalent unit ( TEU) container measures about 20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8 feet tall. In present times, about 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is transported by container ships, and the largest modern container ships can carry over 23,000 TEU.Ĭontainer ships’ capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships are the cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.
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