We Thought the Last One Was BIG

Last July 19th I blogged about the MOL Benefactor container ship visiting the Port of Savannah. That ship was just over 1100 feet long and held the equivalent of 10,100 twenty foot shipping containers. It came to Savannah after visiting the port in New Jersey and off loading some containers. Well, it was supplanted today as the largest ship to visit the Port of Savannah. The new BIG ship is the Cosco Development. The Development is the largest ship to have ever transited the Panama Canal. It is 1200 feet long, 158 feet wide with a capacity of 13, 092 twenty foot shipping containers. This ship is unable to visit the port of New York and New Jersey until the project to raise the road bed of the New Jersey Bayonne Bridge is complete in June. The Development is too tall to fit under the current road bed. The Port of Savannah is in the process of being dredged to allow ships of this size to visit the port. While that may seem a contradiction since the ship is here it is not. At this time the ship is able to navigate into and out of the port during high tide only. The completion of the dredging of the river and channel will allow the transit of those ships regardless of tide conditions. Here is a picture of this BIG ship.