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。
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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.