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Ship Capacity Entered service Displacement Length (metres) Note Handysize tanker Helene Maersk: 25,722 GT: 2010: 39,312 tonnes: 180 metres [1] Henning Maersk: 25,710 GT: 2010: 47,330 tonnes: 180 metres [2]
Seven other sister ships have since been built, and in 2011, Maersk ordered 20 even larger container ships from Daewoo, the Triple E class, each with a capacity of 18,000 containers. The first of these Triple E Class ships was delivered on June 14, 2013, and was christened with the name Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller after the son of the founder of ...
Eleonora Mærsk is a sister ship of Emma Maersk [3] and has a maximum speed of 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph). The ship was specifically designed to sail through the Asian trade route, and has the largest combustion engine ever built. [4] Its engine is the equivalent of 1,000 family-sized cars.
Emma Mærsk is the first container ship in the E class of eight owned by A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S.When launched in 2006, she was the largest container ship ever built, and in 2010, she and her seven sister ships were among the longest container ships.
Maersk Boston is the first of the Maersk B-class of fast container ships.She was then called the "MV Boston", to reflect her charter to MSC in September 2010.. She has the capacity for approximately 4,000 containers and was designed for rapid transportation between China and the USA.
The E class comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container ships.Each sister ship bears a name beginning with the letter "E". Until 2012, they were the largest container ship ever constructed, and are among the longest ships currently in use at 398 metres (1,306 ft) long and 56 metres (184 ft) wide.
As of February 2010, Maersk had an order book for new ships totaling 857000TEU (including options on the Triple E class); that backlog is larger than the existing fleet of the fourth-largest line, Evergreen Line. [27] Maersk Line cooperated with the United States Navy on testing 7–100% algae biofuel on the Maersk Kalmar in December 2011. [28 ...
In February 2011 Maersk announced orders for a new "Triple E" family of container ships with a capacity of 18,000 TEU, with an emphasis on lower fuel consumption. [4] They were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea; the initial order, for ten ships, was valued at US$1.9 billion (2 trillion Korean Won); [5] Maersk had options to buy a further twenty ships. [6]