Box ships to get "bigger and bigger", says GL

Orders for the world’s first 18,000teu container ships will be placed within the year, Germanischer-Lloyd’s Hermann Klein has forecast.
The ships would be longer and wider than anything ever built before and would require a new generation of cranes with longer out-reach than those now in use today that can stretch across 22 rows of containers.
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Source: Lloyd's List DCN