Port warms up for NZ's biggest container ship visitSUPPLIED Shipping line Maersk is preparing to bring its biggest ship yet into New Zealand waters. The biggest container ship New Zealand has ever seen will start calling on Tauranga from September. Its size is more than double the 4500-capacity ships that regularly ply our waters, but still small-fry compared to the world's largest container ship, which holds around 22,000 containers. The new services will complement another recently announced Maersk service between North Asia and South America but with smaller vessels. "If it takes three months to get product from New Zealand to south America, you're just not going to be competitive.

Source: Stuff July 13, 2016 01:39 UTC