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Switzerland is not by the sea. However, the world’s largest container ship is owned by the Swiss shipping company MSC, headquartered in Geneva.
MSC Irina was delivered to the shipping company in Guangzhou, China in March. The dimensions are impressive: from stern to bow, the ship has an impressive size of 400 meters and a width of over 60 meters. In size, this roughly corresponds to the Empire State Building in New York City, long the tallest building in the world. However, she is “only” the largest container ship in the world, but not the largest: It will be the Prelude FLNG, a 488-metre-long oil handling vessel.
MSC Irina offers space for exactly 24,346 shipping containers. That’s more than 158 standard 20-foot containers from OOCL Spain, the next largest vessel currently in service, which went into operation in February. This shows that the records are chasing each other in container transportation. For comparison: in 1958, the largest container ship of that time “SS Ideal X” carried only 58 containers. For the first time, more than 1000 containers were transported in 1964, and in 2006 more than 10,000 containers were transported by a ship for the first time. The sound barrier of 20,000 containers per ship was only broken in 2017.
There’s a good chance you’ll be fascinated by MSC Irina up close. The ship is used in traffic between Italy and China. But it is not flying under the Swiss flag, but under the Liberian flag.
The MSC shipping company is owned by the Aponte family, which in 2002 ranked 6th on the “Bilanz” 300 richest Switzerland list with assets of CHF 19.6 billion. In the 2023 “Forbes” list, their assets are estimated at 62.4 billion francs. The wealth growth is related to the growth of container shipping during the Corona years.
MSC has a total of 730 container ships. The cruise company MSC Cruises, which currently has 21 ships, also belongs to the group.
Source :Blick
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