The world's largest container ship sets off in a virgin voyage

The largest container ship in the world, built just by the South Korean Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard commissioned by the Swiss shipowner Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), departs on July 8 in a virgin voyage from the Chinese port of Xingang to Northern Europe.

A container ship called MSC Gulsun was handed to the shipowner in early July.

It is 400 metres long and 61.5 metres wide. Such parameters They also have other units, but MSC Gulsun is the only one in the world to have the ability to set containers in 24 rows, which gives an additional 1500 containers more compared to previous world recorders.

As a result, MSC Gulsun can take 23,000 20-foot containers (TEU) at once.

MSC Gulsun will be flying the flag of Panama.

The giant container ship is the first of eleven such units to be delivered by the South Korean shipyard in the next nine months.

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