All around the world, ships in all sectors are seriously sizing up.

With competing companies racing to build bigger, better, and bulkier vessels,

these mega machines have become modern marvels of engineering.

Want to find out more about colossal craft that can carry an entire fleet of other ships?

Then, you're going to want to stick around, matey.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. ships, then you're gonna want to stick around, matey. To start off our search to South Korea, where the record-breaking HMM-Algesiris was launched back in 2020.

This incredible container ship can carry almost 24,000 containers on its huge deck,

which measures in 1,312 feet long and over 200 feet wide.

That's almost the same size as four football fields laid end to end.

Although you wouldn't be able to throw a pigskin around on this deck because it's usually loaded with standard 8-foot containers arranged in rows of 24 across.

And when these are all fully stacked up, they can reach a staggering 109 feet high.

So with space for all those containers, what can the HM.M. Algeciras lug over the lofty seas?

Well, in a single voyage, it can transport more than 8.35 million microwave ovens,

223 million bananas, or, if you prefer your comparisons with a little more so,

386 million pairs of shoes. While all these impressive numbers make it the largest ship of its kind

right now, it won't be for long. Two brand-new container ships, each able to carry an immense

24,232 containers, are being constructed

in China's shipyards as I speak. They're expected to set sail sometime in the foreseeable future,

but until then, the HMM Algeciras remains the undisputed king of container ships. Now if facts like this really float your boat,

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