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[82Rigger]

Meet the EMMA MAERSK...

...currently the largest container ship in service.



REGISTRY: Denmark

LENGTH: 1,302 feet (about a quarter of a mile)












BEAM: 207 feet

TONNAGE: 170,974 gross tons












ENGINES: 14 in-line cylinder diesel engines (110,000 BHP)

CRUISE SPEED: 31 knots












CARGO CAPACITY: 11,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)

CREW: 13 (yes, that's THIRTEEN, including the Captain)












CONSTRUCTION COST: US $145,000,000

This ship was built in five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.

[1CAVCCO15MED]

Just exactly where is Denmark on this ship?

[82Rigger]

Fred,

If your asking what identifies her as Danish...

In pic #4 she is flying the Danish flag.

In pic#5 her stern identification shows her to be out of Lyngby-Taarbæk which is a municipality in Hovedstaden near Copenhagen.

MAERSK LINE is A. P. Moller-Maersk, a shipping corporation based in Copenhagen.

[revwardoc]

That thing should have a stern bumper sticker; "We brake for NOBODY!"

[1CAVCCO15MED]

Nah, I was just wondering where they stored Denmark.

[82Rigger]

Fred,

LOL!

It entered my mind that that is what you were asking, but since I couldn't tell
for SURE, I decided not to give you a smart-ass answer just to be safe!

For me, the LAST pic really brings her size into perspective, when you look at the "little boxes" stacked up on deck, and then look at the lower right corner of the pic at the 18-wheeler semi tractors and realize the "little boxes" are
53 foot long semi trailer bodies.

WOW!

Actually there is a LONGER container ship in existence - 1,504 feet - two hundred feet longer that the EMMA MAERSK.

But she is now a stationary "floating warehouse" and doesn't go anywhere.