Cargo ships built to carry standard shipping containers, a type that reshaped world trade after the first commercially successful container ship sailed in 1956. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship a container ship. It excludes bulk, tanker and general cargo ships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: SS Ideal X
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SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker, was the first commercially successful container ship.
Wikipedia: Container Ship
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A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.
Wikipedia: MSC Oscar
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MSC Oscar, and sister ships MSC Zoe and MSC Oliver, are large container ships.
Emma Maersk, Wikipedia
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Emma Mærsk is the first container ship in the E class of eight owned by A.P.
Wikipedia: Ever Given
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is one of the largest container ships in the world
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