![]() ![]() The largest container vessel currently afloat has a carrying capacity of just over 24,000 TEUs (Ever A Lot, operated by Evergreen, nominal capacity of 24,004 TEUs). Since then, other carriers have also jumped onto the bandwagon and ordered increasingly bigger vessels. A few years later, Maersk Line inducted the new Triple E series of ships of 18,000 TEU capacity in its fleet. Over the past decade, the shipping industry has undergone a revolution in scale, with vessel sizes increasing exponentially.Īfter hovering around the 10,000 TEUs mark for the better part of the first decade of 2000, a new record was set by Maersk Line with the deployment of its 13,000 TEU E-Class vessels in 2013. ![]()
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