Khan's Castle

I just spent a few days in a port city where it's easy to watch cargo ships come and go. I've always found transportation centers fascinating and there is something about ships that I find very romantic beyond all reason. Combine that with cell phone with a browser on it and a little fun is available. The idea only occured to me the last night I was there, but I was able to look online and find information on the last ship I watch ease by, the Maersk Daesan—a picture here—which can haul a cool 5060 TEU's of cargo. A TEU is a "Twenty foot Equivalent Unit", that is, one of those 20 foot containers that you'll see around. On the highways around the port, you constantly see trucks pulling 40 foot containers as a trailer, so that's 2530 of those on that one ship.

So, then my curiosity got the better of me and I googled for "largest container ships". Holy smokes! Check out the Maersk Emma, currently the largest container ship in the world. It can carry 11,000—yes, that's not a typo—TEU's, and at that Maersk is known for under reporting their ships' capacities; some outsiders put the Maersk Emma's capacity at around 14,000 TEU's going off of the ships dimensions. Nice little boat, eh?