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Klaipeda welcomed the largest container ship in its history

BC, Vilnius, 25.06.2018.Print version
Lithuania's port of Klaipeda on June 24th welcomed the largest container ship, Francesca, to ever enter the port in its history, informs LETA/BNS.

The port says the vessel, owned by international shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company, is 363-meter-long and sails under Panama's flag.


Klaipeda is becoming a global container handling port and hopes to improve its handling results, Rimantas Juska, head of Klaipedos Smelte, a cargo handling company in the port of Klaipeda, indirectly managed by international shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company, said last week.


According to Juska, an even bigger vessel will arrive in Klaipeda in a couple of weeks. Poland's Gdansk is the only other Baltic Sea port that is able to accept such vessels. Containers from such large vessels are moved to smaller ships and distributed among regional ports.


The 337-meter-long Asya, Mediterranean Shipping Company's other container vessel, broke Klaipeda's record in 2015.


The longest container ships in the world are now 400 meter-long.






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