Biggest cargo ship in the world 2015 – CSCL Globe

The Hong Kong-registered CSCL Globe, measuring more than 400m (1,313ft) in length, docked at Felixstowe loaded with about 19,000 standard containers.

The previous largest ship to have docked at the port was the Maersk Triple-E, which arrived in November, carrying about 18,000 containers.

The new ship, which left China in December, arrived at the Suffolk port sometime after 12:30 GMT.

Hundreds of spectators arrived along the coast to watch the ship dock at Felixstowe’s deep-water berths eight and nine, which were opened in 2011, at a cost of £300m.

Brian Hall, a shipping enthusiast watching the ship come in, told BBC Radio Suffolk: “It’s an awesome sight. It is a great coup for the port to get the biggest container ship in the world into port. It is very prestigious.”

Paul Davey, from the Port of Felixstowe, said: We’ve had largest ships in the world before, but the ships do keep getting bigger and keep choosing the Port of Felixstowe as their UK port of call, which is good news for us.

“It’s good news also for the 30 odd thousand people in Suffolk who make their living in the transport industry.”