The Triple E class is a family of very large container ships with a capacity of more than 18,000 TEUs, which are owned and operated by Maersk Line. With a length of 399.2 m (1,309 ft 9 in), when they were built they were the largest container ships in the world, but were subsequently surpassed by larger ones such as CSCL Globe. [2][3]

This is a list of ships owned or operated by Danish shipping company Maersk. The following lists are active ships of the Maersk fleet as of December 2022. ^ "Details: Helene Maersk". ABS Record. Retrieved 15 December 2022. ^ "Details: Henning Maersk". ABS Record. Retrieved 15 December 2022.

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. Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size .

2013年5月28日 · Costing just under $200 million to build, the ship is powered by two engines, each one diminutive compared to the single 109,000-horsepower diesel of the Emma Maersk, the largest container...

2011年2月21日 · Korea's Daewoo is to build the world's largest ship for Mærsk line. The US$190 million, 400 meter 'Triple-E' class behemoths will carry 18,000 TEU containers, 2500 more than the current largest...

2013年10月28日 · MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the world’s biggest container vessel with a carrying capacity of 18,270 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). It is the lead ship of Maersk’s Triple E class of container vessels. The Triple E class ships are being built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the shipping company Maersk Line.

2024年11月18日 · Copenhagen, Denmark – As the first large vessel in the industry, the container ship Maersk Halifax has been converted into a dual-fuel vessel able to operate on methanol. The retrofit operation was conducted at the Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard in China over 88 days with completion at the end of October 2024.

2013年10月16日 · In a dock yard the size of a large airfield, an army of engineers is building a ship like no other. it's longer than 4 football pitches and capable of carrying more than 18,000 containers. It's...

2021年1月16日 · Measured in terms of Twenty-Foot Equivalents (TEUs), the eight E-Class Maersk container ships are regarded to be the World’s largest container ships. It is to note that all the eight Maersk E Class Series container ships are sister ships, which means that they have same features and characteristics.

2011年8月19日 · Maersk’s Triple- E Vessels, being gigantic four hundred meters long, 59 meters wide and 73 meters high, is undoubtedly the largest vessel, of any variety, sailing on water, in today’s world. A ‘twin-skeg’ propulsion system consists of two propellers, with 9.8 meters in diameter and 4 blades each.