Smaller firms may soon be swallowed like containers vanishing into the hold of the Eleonora Maersk.
小些的公司可能很快就会被吞并,就像集装箱消失在马士基号的船体中一样。
On the voyage your correspondent took, the Eleonora was carrying Europe's New Year celebrations: 1, 850 tonnes of fireworks, including 30 tonnes of gunpowder.
To make it worth one’s while to ship cigarette-lighters and sparklers most of the way round the world, it is best, of course, to have a ship as big as the Eleonora Maersk.