NEWS BRIEFS: Whoa — that is a big ship
Staff reports | Hundreds of people snapped pictures last week as the largest ship ever to call on the East Coast sailed into the port of Charleston. The South Carolina Ports Authority welcomed the record-breaking CMA CGM MARCO POLO to Wando Welch Terminal on May 28. The vessel measures 1,300 feet long and can carry up to 16,022 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent container units). That makes the ship as long as 1.5 USS Yorktowns and seven 787-8 Boeing-made Dreamliner jets.
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