The ship is the Nora Maersk, owned by the Danish company, Maersk, which is the largest container ship operator in the world.
The Nora Maersk is specifically designed to carry containers, and its capacity is 2200 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) which makes it a medium sized container ship.
[When googling the Nora Maersk to find its capacity, I came across this interesting story about the ship - reported to be sinking in Auckland Harbour].
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Shipping Containers
At Napier, the headland just north of the town looks down on the port. There, as in practically all the ports in the world, was a container handling dock, and we were lucky to watch a container ship being unloaded:
