China Gets One-Meter Edge in Race for Biggest Freighter
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In shipping these days, bigger is better. Even if it’s just one meter.
China Shipping Container Lines Co. is ready to launch the largest container ship ever built, a 400-meter (1,300 feet) behemoth that stretches more than four football fields and can haul about 190 million iPads. The vessel promises to nose out the 399-meter A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Triple-Es to be the longest ship afloat, when it sets sail in November.