Ever Ace.

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Bigger than Ever Given, the famous Suez Canal bolus...Ever Ace is wider and deeper. It cannot use Panama canal. It is a wowzer of a piece of metal. 23,992  TEU , a measure of cargo container units it can carry at one time. It just finished it's maiden voyage, and will be followed by 12 sister ships, 6 from China, 6 bulit in Korea by Samsung. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCPVNLrspWk  

The Evergreen ships do a round trip from China to Hamburg, that takes about 3 months, so about 4 trips per year, and as a rough guess , they must haul 100,000 containers of goods from China to Europe and vice versa per year. One ship alone. Just spitballing here, but I think that is more cargo than Spain managed to take from the Americas to Europe en toto between 1492 and 1600.