The largest container ship in the world is, as of September 2022, the MSC Tessa.
MSC Tessa is 399.99m long and has a capacity of 24,116 TEU.
In recent years, records for the size and carrying capacity of container ships have been repeatedly broken.
In 2017, the cargo capacity above 20,000 TEU was exceeded for the first time. Since the beginning of the century, these ships have more than tripled in size.