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I am still amazed with the amount of cargo containers such ship can carry. If I read it right the "Given" carries ~18500 containers, mind boggling.

• laurent92 6y ago
  I makes me realize how much we live in a eco-catastrophy: - Every few days, such a ship lands in Europe and all 122km of goods are dispatched to everyone’s houses (122km is the length of its containers), half of it probably being styrofoam, - 10-20 years later, all this gear lands in landfills. And we keep piling them up. Transferring so much mass for a century from Australia (ore) to China (transformation) to Europe can’t possibly not change the Earth’s rotation axis, let alone raise the average level if land in Europe ;) The logistics of 500 million humans are truly staggering. Ecologists want us to save 40% carbon emissions, but that can’t possibly be enough. It feels like we should be 10% as many as we are, plus save 40% ecological footprint per person...
• tyingq 6y ago
  The figures are given in TEU's which is equivalent to a 20 foot container. Most of the containers are 40 feet, so the number is half that. Still impressive. Also, above deck appears to be stacked roughly 10 high, 24 wide, and 28 bow to stern, with some areas not filled in, so about ~6000 on top and ~3200 below deck.