CMA CGM Marco Polo

CMA CGM Marco Polo is a Bahamas-registered container ship of the owned by the CMA CGM group. On 6 November 2012, it became the largest container ship in the world measured by capacity, but was surpassed on 24 February 2013 by the Maersk Triple E class, which is 4 metres longer at precisely 400m in length.
It is named for Venetian merchant and traveller Marco Polo.
The previous largest was Emma Mærsk and her seven sisters of the . The capacity is 10,000 TEU with an average payload of 14 tonnes, compared with 11,000 for Emma Mærsk and even more for the Triple E Class.
In May of 2021, she became the largest vessel to call at a Canadian port when she arrived at the South End Container Terminal in the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In 2023, she was spotted with a bow windshield, an aerodynamic structure fitted on her bow that reduces drag and improves fuel efficiency. She was the first ship of the CMA CGM fleet to the fitted with the design, and the first ship outside of Japan to do so.