World's largest container ship

A ceremony is held for the maiden voyage of liner "CSCL Asia" in east China's Shanghai, July 9, 2004. The liner, which is capable of carrying 8,500 TEU containers and believed to be the largest of its kind in the world, made its maiden voyage here Friday in the Far East and will travel on to America.

A celebration ceremony is held on Friday in Shanghai for the maiden voyage of the world's largest container ship, the CSCL Asia. The vessel is one of China Shipping's five orders scheduled to be put into service by the end of the year. It can carry 8,500 20-foot containers and its first port of call will be Los Angeles in the United States. The vessel, 334 metres long and 42.6 metres wide, was built by South Korea's Samsung Co at a cost of more than US$80 million.