Largest container ship to ever visit US departs Oakland

The Port of Oakland has become the second US port to handle the largest container ship to visit the USA, following the Port of Los Angeles, where the 18,000 teu CMA CGM vessel arrived at in late December 2015.

The ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) berthed in the port of Oakland on December 31, 2015, and will return to the US in February after visiting Chinese ports.

On December 26, 2015, unprecedented measures were deployed to handle the ship in Los Angeles. These comprised 56 hours of operations, approximately 11,200 container moves and as many as nine cranes – the largest number of cranes deployed simultaneously on the same vessel at the Port of Los Angeles.