Goliath Cometh

We encourage you to click on the photo above to get a better sense of the Christophe Colomb's truly gargantuan size. The recently christened cargo ship is one of the world's largest, capable of carrying over 13,300 containers of goods. That's more than six times the size of most container ships, which typically top out at 2,000 TEUs.

The Christophe Colomb is apparently a harbinger of things to come in the shipping industry, where companies are increasingly keen to order so-called "post...