Maersk Line's first Triple-E container ship is scheduled for delivery on 28 June 2013. The vessel will be deployed on the Asia-Europe route in the middle of July. It has a capacity of 18,000 TEU and is over 400 meters long.
"A project like this includes several stages and a huge diversity of people, machines and activities that are responsible for so many different parts. It is fascinating, and has continued behind the gate of the yard”, says Steen Reeslev, Head of Group Relations at Maersk.
It takes 286 days to build the ships in the Korean DSME shipyard in Okpo. The first ship will be named after the late shipping magnate Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. The ship uses 35 percent less fuel than ships with much less capacity.
It takes 286 days to build the ships in the Korean DSME shipyard in Okpo. The first ship will be named after the late shipping magnate Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. The ship uses 35 percent less fuel than ships with much less capacity.
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Triple-E Class Ship, Photo by John Konrad
rly this month gCaptain was invited to DSME, the world’s second largest shipyard, for a behind-the-scenes tour of the world’s largest ship, the mighty Maersk Triple-E.
Maersk has the option to buy 20 of these impressive 400-meter (1,312′), 18,000 TEU vessels, but the first, the M/V Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, has already been launched with delivery scheduled for June 28th, 2013.
Until the naming ceremony vessel, Maersk will not comment on those big black letters painted on the bow and stern but we think it’s safe to say that the ship is named for Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, son of the Danish shipping magnate Arnold Peter Møller and his Kentucky-born wife Chastine Mc-Kinney. Mærsk Møller became a partner of father’s company in 1940, but soon fled to New York to escape the Nazi occupation of Denmark. That same year he married Emma Marie Neergaard Rasmussen, namesake for the the M/V Emma Maersk, the first of the company’s E-Class of container vessels.
Among Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller’s many accomplishments include his long tenure on IBM’s board of directors, a knighthood and a long and productive life. In fact, right up to his passing last year at the age of 98, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was often seen walking up the stairs to his office on the 6th floor of Maersk headquarters.
The name seems appropriate for this well built, larger than life, vessel.
Triple-E Class Shipyard Photos
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