Maersk Is Near Ordering Record-Size Ships, TradeWinds Reports
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A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S is close to ordering as many as 20 of the largest container ships ever built, TradeWinds reported, without saying where it got the information.
Each vessel would be able to transport the equivalent of 18,000 twenty-foot boxes, compared with the 15,000 that the largest vessels operating now can haul, the shipping-industry newspaper said on its website today.