Posted on March 21, 2016
By Jordan Graham, Boston Herald
Massport and one of the largest shipping companies in the world plan to test the limits of Boston’s Conley Terminal in the coming weeks, bringing in the largest container ship in the port’s history.
“It’s a challenge, like anything else,” said Thomas Glynn, chief executive of Massport. “They wouldn’t be giving us the challenge if they didn’t think there was a possibility of us meeting it.”
Chinese shipping company Cosco will soon be sending a ship carrying 8,500 containers to the Conley Terminal, surpassing an 8,000-container ship as the largest to come to Boston. Typically, the ships that dock at the Conley Terminal are far smaller.
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