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The container ship CMA CGM Marco Polo unloads cargo at the PSA Halifax container berth in Halifax on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.

Port officials in Halifax say the largest container ship to visit a Canadian port has arrived at the city's south-end container terminal.

A spokesman for the Port of Halifax says the CMA CGM Marco Polo is 396 metres long and can carry the equivalent of 16,022 containers that are each 20-feet long.

Lane Farguson says the ship is delivering goods from South Asia and China.

The ship is moored at the PSA Halifax container berth, which is 800 metres long.

Halifax is the only port in Eastern Canada that can accommodate this type of ultra-class vessel.

An extension of the port's south-end container terminal opened last October.

“Saltwater is in our veins," Capt. Allan Gray, president of the Halifax Port Authority, said in a statement. "We know how to handle these big ships and turn them around.”