COSCO ships giant machine to Shanghai for import expo

A giant milling machine arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday for the upcoming first China International Import Expo, after a more than 30-day voyage from the German port of Hamburg, its shipper said.

The massive machine tool was brought by Waldrich Coburg, a German company specializing in industrial machinery and large machine tools.

It was carried by COSCO Spain, a container vessel with a capacity of 13,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units), owned by China COSCO Shipping Co, the nation's largest shipping group by fleet size. As one of the largest industrial products to be seen in the expo, it was packaged in 12 containers, according to the publicity office of Shanghai-headquartered COSCO Shipping.