Nah the chinese be coming up with some crazy innovative shit,
dont they have the largest container ship in the world...??
that shit is fuckin HUGE!!!!!
Shit takes two weeks to unload.
The biggest container ship to ever dock in America has returned to the U.S. to take port in Long Beach,
California.
The quarter-mile-long Benjamin Franklin, which is bigger than the Empire State building, can hold up to 18,000 units and 116,000 tons of produce.
On Friday, workers began moving 12,500 cargo containers on and off the ship. The unloading won't be finished until Tuesday.
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Port of Long Beach, California released these pictures of the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin taking port
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The undated photos show the Benjamin Franklin, the largest shipping container ever to arrive in the U.S.
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After arriving in California, the shipping vessel (pictured) will travel to Seattle, Washington
A private ceremony welcoming the Franklin to Long Beach, was attended by city leaders, elected officials and shipping executives.
The megaship will depart Wednesday for Seattle.
To get around, a ship of this scale only requires a few more staff than one half the size.
Velibor Krpan, the captain of the Benjamin Franklin, told
CNN: 'The larger the ship you have, the more containers you can carry.
'It's cheaper to have bigger ships, containing more products, because you have fewer things to pay for. It's more efficient in every aspect.'
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The quarter-mile-long Benjamin Franklin, which is bigger than the Empire State, left Xiamen at 4am on Monday. It can hold up to 18,000 units with 116,000 tons of cargo. Pictured on trial run to San Pedro in December 2015
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To fit the mega ship, the 10th largest in the world, Los Angeles authorities had to renovate the city's port
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While it normally takes up to three days to offload the contents of a shipping container, the cranes in Oakland took two weeks working on this unprecedented load when it came to the West Coast for a trial in December
However, it will take a while for America to acclimatize to this new style of importing and exporting, which has become popular in Asia and Europe.
Ports are not used to offloading cargo of this scale.
The Benjamin Franklin, built by French shipping firm CMA CGM specifically to operate with America, conducted its trial run from China to America's West Coast in December.
While it normally takes up to three days to offload the contents of a shipping container, the cranes in Oakland took two weeks working on this unprecedented load.