(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The UAE is all set to welcome the world's largest container ship - CMA CGM Marco Polo - as it charts its maiden voyage across the Arabian Gulf in the New Year and makes Khorfakkan port her first call in the Middle East.
At 396 metres long (approximately the length of four standard football pitches) and 54 metres wide, the CMA CGM Marco Polo is capable of carrying up to 16,020 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit).
The vessel is scheduled to call at Gulftainer's Khorfakkan Container Terminal on January 5, before proceeding to it final port at Ningbo, China on January 23, where its voyage commenced on November 7.
Gulftainer's managing director, Peter Richards, said: "As one of only a few ports globally capable of handling such vessels, our Khorfakkan Container Terminal has the infrastructure to accommodate the world's largest container vessels and we look forward to welcoming the Marco Polo as it calls in the UAE for the first time."
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