The world’s biggest container vessel, MSC Irina, has arrived at the outer anchorage of Vizhinjam International Seaport, marking its first-ever call to a South Asian port.
The ship is operated by the Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest container shipping company.
The ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) is part of a six-ship Irina-class series and can carry up to 24,346 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), the largest container capacity for any ship in the world.
The vessel is 399.99 metres long and 61.3 metres wide, with a summer deadweight of 240,739 tonnes, making it equivalent in length to four football fields. Containers stacked aboard the ship can reach the height of a 22 to 25-storey building.
The ship reached Vizhinjam’s outer anchorage on Tuesday evening, June 3, but it has not yet docked due to congestion. Six ships are currently in the queue, and berthing is expected to happen by June 6,
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