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Originally Posted by q12
CMA CGM Marco Polo just arrived in Halifax. It is the largest container ship to ever call on North America’s east coast and any Canadian port.
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A very impressive vessel and a grand sight to see to be sure, and a record is a record, but I was surprised to hear all the excitement about her. You'd think nothing like it had ever been seen in Halifax before, while in fact ships of that size have been calling here for a few years now. The dimensional difference between CMA CGM Marco Polo and the others we've been seeing recently is trivial, even negligible - certainly not enough to be discernible visually.
She's also very far from the largest container ships, of which there are now dozens in the 24,000-TEU range (i.e., 50% more capacity!) in service. Unfortunately we don't have the terminal space, handling capacity or rail capacity to serve them in Halifax.
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