The captain of the container ship MSC Jubilee IX in Seattle was arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) ...

Shipping vessels have grown from a capacity of 3,000 to 20,000 containers over the years. An expert in shipping finance told BI the tragedy highlights trade's "sensitivity to unpredictable events." ...

Right now, around 57 container ships are lingering outside the Port of Los Angeles—the largest port in the US—desperate to unload their cargo and move on. As the delays stretch on for weeks ...

Dali, the 984-foot-long cargo ship that collided with the Baltimore Key Bridge, is considered a standard size. Container ships have grown 1,500% in size over the last 50 years.

The Ever Given, for example, is 399.94 meters (1,312 feet, 2 inches). OEDC: The Impact of Mega-Ships Since then the size of the ships has grown massively, in search of greater efficiencies.

From record-breaking container ships to massive oil tankers and cruise liners, these are the 15 biggest ships ever built.

Another 53 ships are on order. The largest cargo ship to call in Seattle or Tacoma was the Ben Franklin, an 18,000-container vessel that visited once in 2016.

In April 1956, the first commercially successful container ship set sail from Newark to Houston: Called the SS Ideal X, it was a modest size—a 524-foot-long and 30-foot-wide vessel with a cargo ...

A container ship the length of the Empire State building is set to arrive in the New York Harbor on Thursday. The Marco Polo is the largest cargo ship to call on the East Coast and its massive ...

The container ship orderbook has reached a record high of 10.4m teu after a surge in orders. That lifts the orderbook ratio ...

Making a very large container ship is not the hard part, as the rapid increase in the number of New Panamax and larger container ships, like the ~24,000 TEU Evergreen A-class demonstrate.