Largest container ship docks on US East Coast

The container vessel Marco Polo has docked in New Jersey and set a record for the largest container ship to call on the East Coast. It is taller than the Eiffel Tower. It's three-and-a-half football fields long and can carry the equivalent of more than 16,000 20-foot-long containers.

The global transportation and logistics company owns the Marco Polo container ship and the vessel is full of imported household items and sporting goods. The Marco Polo's visit to New Jersey and other East Coast ports underscores both the surging volume handled by ports nationwide as COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease, as well as the billions of dollars spent by port systems to accommodate these larger ships.