When it comes to describing the container shipping scene at present one-phrase sums it up: biggest is best. The trend of ever larger ships is continuing almost unabated, but now we have ever larger shipping alliances, and just over the horizon comes the prospect of even larger shipping companies. Anyone that follows the container industry will be aware that the size of ships continues to grow. Maersk began the current race tor the largest ship by ordering the first 18,000TKU vessel in 2011, and other lines soon followed suit, realising that the bigger the ship the greater the economies of scale. In 2015 the title of world's largest containership was shared between three different classes: Maersk Line's 18,340TKU Triple Es, China Shipping Line's 18,982 THU CSCL Globe and Mediterranean Shipping Company's 19,224'FKU MSC Oscar.
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