Biggest ship yet for Tacoma

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Biggest ship yet for Tacoma</h1>
                <h2><p>Larger than a Navy aircraft carrier, twice the diameter of the Tacoma Dome and nearly two times the height of the Space Needle: These are record-setting dimensions for a container vessel stopping at the Port of Tacoma. The Zim Djibouti, a ship that arrived in Tacoma this morning, has a</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Larger than a Navy aircraft carrier, twice the diameter of the Tacoma Dome and nearly two times the height of the Space Needle: These are record-setting dimensions for a container vessel stopping at the Port of Tacoma. The Zim Djibouti, a ship that arrived in Tacoma this morning, has a capacity of 10,000 container units and marks the start of a trend towards larger vessels in the Pacific Northwest. <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/10/2673345/biggest-ship-yet-calls-on-port.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">The News Tribune reports</a> the port will embark on several projects to accommodate these larger vessels, including using wider cranes and eventually widening the entire Blair waterway, which is the current entrance to the port. The ship <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/08/31/daily7.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">made its first visit</a> to Seattle in 2009.</p>
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Larger than a Navy aircraft carrier, twice the diameter of the Tacoma Dome and nearly two times the height of the Space Needle: These are record-setting dimensions for a container vessel stopping at the Port of Tacoma. The Zim Djibouti, a ship that arrived in Tacoma this morning, has a capacity of 10,000 container units and marks the start of a trend towards larger vessels in the Pacific Northwest. The News Tribune reports the port will embark on several projects to accommodate these larger vessels, including using wider cranes and eventually widening the entire Blair waterway, which is the current entrance to the port. The ship made its first visit to Seattle in 2009.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi