Sentence examples for biggest container from inspiring English sources
THEY will be the biggest container ships ever.
Many of the world's biggest container ports are in China.
Of the 20 biggest container lines, 17 are breaking even or losing money.
It will also be much wider to allow passage by the biggest container ships.
Fully loaded, the biggest container ships draw about fifty feet of water.
With 80 vessels, it is one of the world's biggest container shipping lines.
The world's biggest container-shipping company, A.P. Moeller-Maersk, is negotiating to buy a rival, Royal P&O Nedlloyd.
Maersk lines, the world's biggest container-shipping company, has eight such triple-E class ships and has just ordered 20 even (slightly) bigger ships from Korean yards.
"Hardly anybody is building smaller container ships now," says Jürgen Harling, group vice-president of A.P. Moller-Maersk of Denmark, the world's biggest container-shipping line.
Reassuringly, most captains prefer to take a few more.Maersk Lines, the world's biggest container-shipping company and owner of the Eleonora, is betting that, given the current economics of world trade, the only way to go is yet bigger.
On June 17th China's antitrust regulators sank plans by the world's three biggest container-shipping firms to form a vast alliance aimed at sharing space on board their vessels.The business of shifting containers across the globe has induced seasickness for some years.
