The future of the ultra large container ship

2010-06-18T10:36:00

Container ships built and on order, TEU v. date of build. The red line gives the contour of the biggest ship deployed at a given time

In the early 1970s, the biggest ship was about 2,000 TEU, compared to 14,000 TEU today. Is this development going to continue or will it be curbed by global warming and the carbon footprint? What are the factors deciding how big a container ship can be?

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