The container ship MSC Katie is 1,200 feet long and has a cargo capacity equivalent to 12,400 standard 20-foot shipping containers.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A container ship that made its way up the Columbia River Wednesday is the largest ever to dock at the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6, narrowly edging out another massive ship that set the previous record last year.
The MSC Katie began heading upriver from Astoria Wednesday morning and had made it as far as Kalama by around 3:30 p.m. It was scheduled to arrive at Terminal 6 at around 6 p.m., according to Port of Portland strategic communications manager Melanni Rosales.
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