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MSC Gülsün, at the time of her launch in 2019, was the world's largest container ship. Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, she is almost 62 metres (203 ft 5 in) wide and 400 metres (1,312 ft 4 in) long.
The Gülsün class is a series of container ships built for Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The largest ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 23,756 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). They were the largest container ships in the world when they were launched in 2019, surpassing OOCL Hong Kong (21,413 TEU).
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).. Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport.
Gülsün-class container ship: Container ship: 399.8 m (1,312 ft) 61.0 m (200.1 ft) 16.5 m (54 ft) 228,786 In service Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering: Mediterranean Shipping Company [32] MSC Amelia: In service MSC Diletta: In service MSC Michelle: In service MSC Allegra: In service MSC Mina: 228,741: In service [33] MSC Isabella: In ...
Ships Market share Notes Alliance 1 Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Switzerland: 5,705,424 801 19.9% [Note 1] 2M(until February 2025) Independent (from March 2025) 2 Maersk Denmark: 4,193,392 685 14.6% [Note 2] 2M (until February 2025) Gemini (from March 2025) 3 CMA CGM France: 3,635,418 634 12.7% [Note 3] Ocean Alliance 4 COSCO Shipping ...
The world's longest ships are listed according to their overall length (LOA), which is the maximum length of the vessel measured between the extreme points in fore and aft. In addition, the ships' deadweight tonnage (DWT) and/or gross tonnage (GT) are presented as they are often used to describe the size of a vessel. The ships are listed by type.
Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s; [2] before then, few were more than 50,000 GT. [3] In the decades since the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. [4] There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater. [5]
Container ship classes of MSC Ship class Built Capacity (TEU) Ships in class Notes MSC Daniela-class: 2008–2010 13,798 8 MSC Danit-class: 2009–2012 13,050–14,036 23 MSC Beryl-class: 2010–2012 12,991 7 Long-term charter from Niki Shipping: MSC Benedetta-class: 2011–2012 13,100 8 Long-term charter from E.R. Schiffahrt: MSC Olympic-class ...