This week's Economist has an article about the decline in global shipping. In the article it claims that the largest container ships are capable of carrying 15,000 standard containers? Is this possible? Isn't a standard container 40' long and 8' wide or so. How could one vessel carry 15,000 of them?
It states that the cost of shipping one container from China to Europe has dropped from $1400 to $400.

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