CMA CGM Breaks East Cost Container Ship Record

A new era for the Port of New York and New Jersey started yesterday with the arrival of the largest ship to ever stop over on the East Coast.

The Jersey Journal
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A new era for the Port of New York and New Jersey started yesterday with the arrival of the largest ship to ever stop over on the East Coast.

The CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt sailed under the newly elevated Bayonne Bridge yesterday on its maiden voyage to the United States, as locals gathered at Dennis P. Collins Park to watch the massive ship's arrival.

Four times larger than the Statue of Liberty and the length of five football fields, the Theodore Roosevelt can carry more than 14,400 20-foot equivalent units (TEU). Owned by French shipping group CMA CGM, the ship made its way to New Jersey after navigating the new Panama Canal locks Aug. 22, and becoming the largest capacity ship to do so.

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