"Big Mac" container ship berthing consecutive Yangshan Port

At 5 o'clock on the August 17, "Mediterranean Bitelisi" round smooth berthing berths in Yangshan Deepwater Port Phase 4, which has been docked since August Yangshan port's first four "mega" container ships .

"Mediterranean Bitelisi" round-owned Mediterranean Shipping Company, is the world's largest container ships, one ship width 51.2 m, length 366 meters, higher than the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier but also more than 30 meters long, the "aircraft carrier" container ships known. Its deck area equivalent to three football pitches in size, can carry 13,798 standard containers, these containers if the switch to rail transport, the total length of the car will reach more than 90 km, mainly in Europe routes.

Yangshan border into Hong Kong for the round handle the formalities, border police told reporters that the voyage of the VR 12-hour parking in the Yangshan Port will be handling more than 1,300 standard containers only.

Since August, the Yangshan Port has ushered in successive two PS-based Maersk's flagship container ships, "Edith Maersk" and "Estelle Maersk", and with sister companies round the Mediterranean, "Mediterranean Daniela "Furthermore, the berthing of the" Mediterranean Bitelisi ", this month has four" giant "wheel stop Yangshan port, full of Yangshan Port of Shanghai International Shipping Center as the core of the tremendous appeal of Hong Kong .