It gets here via BIG SHIPS.
The Maersk Triple-E class ships are the 2nd largest in the world.
—- 60,000 tons ….. enough steel for 185,489 Harley Davidson motorcycles
—- 1,313 feet long (just 7 feet shy of a QUARTER MILE) by 194 feet wide, and 243 feet high.
—- 165,000 metric tons deadweight
It’s capacity is 18,000 20-foot containers …. enough for 182 Million i-Pads.
18,000 containers would require a 69 mile long train … or, if stacked on top of each other, would reach 30 miles high …. or, if stacked in front of Blarney Rock Pub in NYC it would look like this …
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