The Maersk Hamburg, a ship containing no less than 15,300 containers, became the largest ship to ever anchor in Israel when it docked Wednesday at the Haifa port.
The ship is 360 meters long,54 meters wide and more than 15 meters deep. Until recently, it seemed that ships of this size would only be able to enter an Israeli port after the opening of the new terminals in Haifa and Ashdod, but the preparations of the Haifa port included the purchase of two cranes that can transport containers from such large ships, and the deepening of the water in the adjacent area,