The container ship OOCL France became on Wednesday the largest capacity vessel to transit the Panama Canal, the agency that operates that inter-oceanic waterway said.
The OOCL France, which is 366.47 meters (1,201 feet) in length and 48.23 meters in beam, eclipsed the previous mark because of its capacity to carry 13,926 Twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs, or containers measuring 20 feet in length), Panama Canal Authority (ACP) Administrator Jorge Quijano told reporters.
The previous record had been set just over three weeks ago by the COSCO Development container ship, which is 366.45 meters long and 48.26 meters in beam and has a 13,345 total TEU allowance (TTA), he said.