Don C. Brunnell: More Gigantic Ships Coming

Get ready! More colossal container ships are coming.

We got a glimpse of the future this leap year when the Benjamin Franklin sailed into Elliott Bay. Four years from now, hopefully, many mega-container ships will dock in Puget Sound waters.

The Benjamin Franklin is the largest vessel ever to call at a U.S. port. It is longer than two Space Needles stacked on top of one another; wider than a CenturyLink Field and rises 20 stories high. In fact, when fully loaded it barely fits under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and when empty its 18,000 containers could stretch end-to-end from Tacoma to...