There is nothing like the issue of size to get men and women talking.
Readers of TradeWinds, it seems, are no different following the sale yesterday of the largest ship ever built.
The 555,843-dwt Knock Nevis (ex-Jahre Viking) changed hands for the first time since 2004 when it was sold to a Malaysian bunkering outfit.
Eagle-eyed readers noticed we referred to it as the world’s former largest ship, but is there some mistake? After all, if nothing bigger has ever been rolled out by a shipyard and the vessel has not been scrapped, what has stripped the enormous unit of its coveted title?
Royal Caribbean’s new giant cruise ship, Oasis
