Emma Maersk

Eugen Maersk in Le Havre France

Marston is full of beans today. Some of these pictures are from an email he sent me, some are from the Maersk Line website. I think the first one is the best. It shows you how much bigger Eugen is than your run of the mill container ship.

The 207 foot beam means it cannot fit through the Panama or Suez Canals. It is strictly transpacific. A cruise speed of 31 knots is 50% faster than a typical container ship. Built in Denmark.

• Length - 1,302 ft, 150 feet longer than the QE2 or the USS Enterprise (Aircraft Carrier).
• Crew - 13
• Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
• Cargo capacity - 11,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)
• First Trip - September 08, 2006
• Construction cost - US $145,000,000+

TEU stands for Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit and is the equivalent of a 20 foot long shipping container. These are the short ones you see getting hauled around on trucks sometimes. The big containers are 40 feet long and are the same size as full size semi-trailers. They are equivalent to two TEU's.

The Maersk line has 8 ships like this out of a total of roughly 200. The oldest ships in their fleet were built in 1980 and hold 2700 TEU, about one fourth of what Emma and her sisters can carry. Their smallest ship only holds 740 TEU, but it is an oddball. The next biggest size is over 1,000 TEU. They have almost two million shipping containers. One of their ships makes a port call every thirteen minutes.

Shipyard where she was built:

Odense Steel Shipyard

Update June 2019 replaced dead Picasa album with image and link to Google Drive album.
Update July 2020 replaced missing Google Map.