News / Can the carriers fill all these ultra-large containerships? And if so, for how long?

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The current holder of the title of the world’s biggest containership, the 19,100 teu CSCL Globe, was full to the gunnels as it completed its North European maiden call this week.

And it was a rare event for the industry as it caught the mainstream media’s attention, thanks to some enterprising PR.

Many of the boxes in the deck stacks were no doubt empty, but for the purposes of the photo shoots a fully-loaded image was a necessity, and made a bullish ...