It's Really BIG

Things are changing at the Port of Savannah due to the expansion of the locks in the Panama Canal. The biggest ship to ever dock at the port was the MOL Benefactor. 

How big is this ship? 

It is 1105 feet long and 158 feet wide. It has a capacity of 10,100 twenty foot shipping containers. It just paid the largest toll in history to transit the Panama Canal at fust over $850,000. The Savannah River and harbor are being dredged to allow ships of this size to utilize the harbor. The Benefactor had to stop in New Jersey first to offload containers at that port before coming to Savannah. The river and harbor here cannot handle the ship fully loaded. To understand the difference ships stopping in Savannah before this had capacity for about 4,500 twenty foot shipping containers.