The pre-Christmas rush has started at Felixstowe container port with the arrival of the biggest container ship in the world, the MV Emma Maersk.
The ship is 397m long, 61.5m high and as wide as a motorway. It arrived at the East Anglian port late on Sunday 5 November to offload 3,000 containers filled with Christmas goods.
The Emma Maersk is on the latest leg of its two-month maiden voyage having left Gothenburg, Sweden and sailed to Yantian in China, Hong Kong and Tanjung Pelepas
in Malaysia.
After unloading at Felixstowe it is scheduled to call at Rotterdam in the Netherlands to drop off another 8,000 containers.
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