Cargo ships calling on the Port of Savannah just keep getting bigger.
The French-owned ship CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt was scheduled to arrive Friday afternoon in Savannah. The massive ship measures 1,200 feet long and can carry up to 14,400 cargo containers that are 20 feet long apiece.
That means the Theodore Roosevelt has roughly 10 percent more cargo capacity than the COSCO Development, which briefly held the record for largest ship to visit the U.S. East Coast when it docked at Savannah and other ports in May.
Bigger ships are now using the Panama Canal following completion of a major expansion last year.
