Container ships are the backbone of global trade, carrying 80–90% of the world’s non-bulk cargo and enabling the efficient ...

There's a simple reason more accidents like the one involving the Madrid Bridge are happening in recent years — container ships have gotten too big. At least that's how Ivo Knobloch, a vice president ...

Last weeks, the world's oceans got that little bit more crowded when shipping line MSC put its newest container ship into service for the first time. The record-breaking MSC Irina became the largest ...

But container ships aren't like supertankers, which can deliver their cargo through a big ol' hose. Dock facilities tend to place the upper size limits on machines like the MSC Tessa, and the current ...

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The container ship Dali hit Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, causing the entire structure to fall within seconds. Kena Betancur / Getty Images Early Tuesday morning, a cargo ...

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Container shipping lines are poised to take delivery of a new generation of "megaships" over the next two years, just as the growth of world trade is slowing down, ...

There's something gleeful about a big ship getting stuck. Maybe it's their massive size, and the often fruitless plight to make them budge. The Ever Forward had just loaded up with cargo in Baltimore ...

(CNN) — When a container ship slammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, it led to the disastrous collapse that left six people presumed dead and took out one of the region’s key ...