Container ship

One of the largest container ships in the world, and one of the two largest that have so far docked in Piraeus, was welcomed on its maiden voyage by the Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT).

This is the OOCL Piraeus, a mega container vessel owned by Orient Overseas Container Line Europe, a subsidiary of the COSCO Shipping Group.

Nearly 600 cruise ships carrying more than 550,000 passengers have called at Turkish ports in the first eight months of this year, Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu has said.

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The new Super Post Panamax Ship Loading and Unloading Bridge Crane has arrived at the Port of Piraeus. The bridge crane can serve mega container ships of 20,000 TEU and is intended to be installed in Pier I, according to a relevant announcement.

Salvage teams on March 29 set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week had clogged one of the world's most vital maritime arteries.

A megaship blocking the Suez Canal may cause a new toilet paper crisis, it is claimed.

It comes just a year after UK supermarket shelves were stripped of toilet roll in a frenzy of panic buying just before the first lockdown.

A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" sent new shockwaves through global trade on Thursday as officials stopped all ships entering the channel and the salvage company said it may take weeks to free.

A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping on March 25 as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

A cargo container ship that's among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt's Suez Canal, officials said on March 24, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.

The capacity of a port in Turkey's southern Mersin province will be expanded from 2.8 million to 3.6 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), according to the country's Transport and Infrastructure Ministry.