Three ships are affiliated, three more are being built — one the size of a container vessel.

When ammonia was generated through a glass delivery tube, the mercury in the beaker came down into the container vessel.

The first modern container vessel was launched in 1956, and by the 1970s, container ships that dominate today had begun to change the shipping industry.

While finished in 1971, it took until 1973 for the first container vessel to arrive, though the general container trend was not to avoid the port.

With only 9,000 municipal carparking spaces in the city centre, one proposal involves the creation of floating car parks on old container vessels moored off the city's southern tip.