Saturday, May 25, 2019

Port of Baltimore welcomes mammoth-sized container ship — its biggest visitor ever

The biggest ship to ever call the Port of Baltimore arrived at the Seagirt Marine Terminal Friday morning carrying more than 14,000 20-foot-long containers. At 403 yards long, the Evergreen Triton is the size of four football fields. If stood on its end, the vessel would be three times as tall as the World Trade Center building in downtown Baltimore. The ship was so big it needed a special exception to get through the Panama Canal because it was three meters longer than the allowed limit. Baltimore…



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