WASHINGTON: The Port of Savannah will usher in another record-breaking ship Thursday. The OOCL France is expected to cross over River Street between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The ship, which was built in 2013, is 1,203 feet long. It’s also capable of carrying 13,208 of those 20-foot shipping containers visitors to River Street are accustomed to seeing pass by. That’s 200 more than the last largest ship to hit the port, the COSCO Development. The Development arrived in Savannah last month at the time, it was the largest cargo ship ever to visit ports on the U.S. East Coast.
Right now the Port of Savannah is the fourth busiest container shipping terminal in the country. Since 2008, the amount of trade at the Port has increased by 45 percent.
