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'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