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Radio Solent,3 mins

The biggest ship to dock in the UK berths in Southampton

Lou Hannan

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Southampton container port has welcomed it's biggest visitor to date. At 400 metres long and almost 60 meters wide, M.O.L. Triumph can carry the equivalent of 20,170 twenty foot containers. Laid end to end they would be 76 miles long. She was named in a ceremony in China in March. She has visited 8 ports in the far east, Southampton is her first port of call in Europe on her maiden voyage. But bringing a ship of this size into port is no mean feat. As BBC Radio Solent's Neil Sackley found out when he joined the pilots from ABP Southampton on board.

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