5-601: Madrid Maersk was the largest container ship at the time of launch, but was surpassed shortly after the launch of OOCL Hong Kong , and she was the second container ship to surpass the 20,000- TEU threshold , after the MOL Triumph . She was built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering shipyard and was delivered in April 2017. Her first port on her maiden voyage was Port of Tianjin , China . Madrid Maersk has
10-457: A Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS). In August 2021, the record for most containers loaded onto a single ship is held by the Ever Ace , which carried a total of 21,710 TEU of containers from Yantian to Europe. As of January 2024, the record for the largest container ship is held by MSC 's Irina -class with
15-409: A capacity of 20,568 TEUs and is the first of eleven second-generation Maersk Triple E-class container ships . Maersk Line , the company owner, is taking delivery of the remaining ten plus 17 additional smaller vessels to replace older ships through the end of 2018. This merchant ship article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of largest container ships This
20-414: Is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). 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 . Primarily, these are the availability of sufficiently large main engines and
25-452: The availability of a sufficient number of ports and terminals prepared and equipped to handle ultra-large container ships. Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as
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