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Size comparison between five of the longest ships of their type. The world's longest ships are listed according to their overall length (LOA), which is the maximum length of the vessel measured between the extreme points in fore and aft.
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).. Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport.
Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s; before then, few were more than 50,000 GT. In the decades since the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater.
Gülsün-class container ship: Container ship: 399.9 m (1,312 ft) 61.5 m (202 ft) 16.5 m (54 ft) 232,618 In service Samsung Heavy Industries: Mediterranean Shipping Company: MSC Samar: In service MSC Leni: In service MSC Mia: In service MSC Febe: In service MSC Ambra: In service HMM Oslo: HMM Algeciras-class container ship: Container ship
List of large sailing vessels. Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
Amphibious assault ship: 257 m (843 ft) 45,000: 2 in service, 1 under construction United States Navy: Wasp class: 8: Amphibious assault ship: 257 m (843 ft) 40,500: 7 in service, 1 scrapped United States Navy: Tarawa class: 5: Amphibious assault ship: 254 m (833 ft) 39,400: 2 in reserve, 2 scrapped, 1 sunk United States Navy: Kirov class: 4 ...
Evergreen A-class container ship. The Evergreen A class (or Ever A) is a series of 13 container ships being built for Evergreen Marine. The largest ships have a maximal theoretical capacity of around 23,992 TEU and are among the largest container ships in the world. [1] [2] Six ships are being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea.
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.