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Move over Marco Polo, SC Ports is getting a new record-setting ship. Here's when it arrives.
It's been a good run for the Marco Polo, but there's a new big ship in town. The OOCL Iris was scheduled to arrive at the Port of Charleston late morning on Feb. 18, making it the biggest cargo ...
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Cargo Ships Keep Getting Bigger, and Infrastructure Is Racing to Keep Up
And the world’s largest container ship, the MSC Irina, is more than 1,300 feet long and 200 feet wide, with a capacity of 24,000 TEUs. Aligned end-to-end, the Dali, Marco Polo and Irina would ...
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SC Ports' record-setting ship OOCL Iris proves it's not so bad being last
If you're not first you're last might be true in auto racing, but when it comes to container ships there ... record holder — the CMA CGM Marco Polo, which arrived in May 2021 — by 806 ...
Iris, largest vessel ever at Port of Charleston, arriving Tuesday morning
The Iris is the second of ten new 16,000-TEU container ships OOCL ordered ... the previous record had been sent by the CMA ...