EMMA Maersk - Largest Container Ship

It’s longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall , wider than the width of a football field and it can officially hold 11,000 20-foot-long shipping containers, though some suggest it can pack in even more

Odense Steel Shipyard’s hull no. 203 is the world’s largest container carrier. It was named in mid-August and given the name Emma Mærsk (after the late wife of Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller), introducing an E-class of eight ships. .

Emma Mærsk

Homeport:Taarbæk
Built:Odense Staalskibsværft. Hull no. 203
Owner:A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S
Length o.a.397.71 m
Length b.p.376.0 m
Width56.40 m
Draft15.5 m
Hight of hull30.2 m
Gross tonnage170,974 bt
Net tonnage55,396 nt
Deadweight156,907 DWT
Main engine:Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c, 80,080 kW (109,000 hp)
Speed>25.5 knots
Auxiliary:5 x Caterpillar 8M32, 40,000 hp
Next month, the Emma Maersk, the world’s largest container ship, will enter service between Asia and Europe, hauling toys, electronics, clothing, and whatever else can be packed into steel boxes. The vessel, bigger than an aircraft carrier, will hold at least 1,400 more containers than any of the other 3,700 container-carrying vessels now plying the seas. Its capacity will greatly exceed the size of vessels regularly calling on the port of Hampton Roads; those vessels typically can hold between 4,000 and 5,000 20-foot-long containers.That’s a lot of containers,” David Tozer said of the Emma Maersk’s 11,000-container capacity as reported by its owner, Maersk Line. Tozer oversees the worldwide container ship inspection program for London-based Lloyd’s Register, which certifies the seaworthiness of ships.
Yet Tozer and other industry experts say Maersk’s figure understates the ship’s true capacity. Based on its 1,303-foot length and 184-foot width, they estimate it could carry up to nearly 15,000 20-foot containers