Monday, April 4, 2016

The Emma Maersk

I was watching this Saturday night and found it fascinating. ('Hope you do, too!) I just never realized how large and complicated these ships were. Imagine being the captain with the responsibility of keeping the crew and cargo safe! 





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Container ship Emma Mærsk in Aarhus, 5 September 2006
Name: Emma Maersk
Owner: Moller-Maersk
Operator: A. P. Moller-Maersk Group
Port of registry: Taarbæk,  Denmark
Builder: Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd, Denmark
Laid down: 20 January 2006[1]
Launched: 18 May 2006
Acquired: 31 August 2006
In service: 31 August 2006
Identification:
Status: In service
General characteristics
Class and type: Mærsk E-class container ship
Tonnage:
  • 170,794 GT
  • 55,396 NT
  • 156,907 DWT
Length: 397 m (1,302 ft)
Beam: 56 m (184 ft)
Draught: 16.02 m (52.6 ft)
Depth: 30 m (98 ft) (deck edge to keel)
Propulsion: 81 MW (109,000 hp) Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c plus 30 MW (40,000 hp) from five Caterpillar 8M32
Speed: 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
Capacity:
Crew: 13, with room for 30
Notes: [2]
  Emma Mærsk is the first container ship in the E-class of eight owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. 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. Officially, she is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) or 14,770 TEU depending on definition. In May 2010, her sister ship Ebba Mærsk set a record of 15,011 TEU in Tanger-Med, Tangiers


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