I've seen one (albeit slightly smaller I'm sure) from one of those big shipping companies down in the Galveston Bay going to/from the Houston port. They are ridiculously massive. I'm not totally sure where those things dock down there, but I know most of the huge oil tankers come quite a bit inland on the shipping channel even.
I'll give these guys credit, moving something of that size around in the way they do and we almost never hear of incidents, it's impressive. I'd be interested to watch the traffic of one of these massive shipping ports just to see it all happen.
I was looking at that story earlier today. It's a new breed of super cargo ship that is hugely massive. It ran aground then got sideways.
The size of this ship is impressive - https://www.rt.com/news/518965-ship-stuck-suez-canal/
We have cargo ships here, ice breakers and cruise ships, big boats. But this is something else.
I've seen one (albeit slightly smaller I'm sure) from one of those big shipping companies down in the Galveston Bay going to/from the Houston port. They are ridiculously massive. I'm not totally sure where those things dock down there, but I know most of the huge oil tankers come quite a bit inland on the shipping channel even.
I'll give these guys credit, moving something of that size around in the way they do and we almost never hear of incidents, it's impressive. I'd be interested to watch the traffic of one of these massive shipping ports just to see it all happen.
This is a mesmerizing real time global maritime livestream. Play with it, it's fun.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:33.2/centery:27.3/zoom:4