The largest container ship ever to call at a North American port, CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, arrived at the Port of Los Angeles on Saturday, December 26.
She will depart the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 30, for the Port of Oakland. Among the largest in the French shipping line CMA CGM’s fleet, the vessel has a capacity of nearly 18,000 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) – about a third larger than the biggest container ships that currently call at the San Pedro Bay Port Complex.