World’s biggest container ship stops over at Port Klang


CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery berthed at Container Terminal 8, Westports container wharf, during its maiden voyage.

THE world’s biggest container ship flying the French flag, CMA CGM Antoine de Saint Exupery, made a stop at Westports in Port Klang as part of its maiden voyage.

Named after a French writer and a poet, the container vessel with a capacity of 20,600 TEUs (or 123km of containers) is 400m in length or longer than four football fields and 59m wide, bigger than The Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower.

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