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Size comparison of some of the longest ships. From top to bottom: Knock Nevis, Emma Mærsk, RMS Queen Mary 2, MS Berge Stahl, and USS Enterprise.
Emma Mærsk is a container ship owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. When she was launched, Emma Mærsk was the largest container ship ever built, and as of 2007 the longest ship in use.The largest ship ever built was the supertanker Knock Nevis, but now she serves as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO). Officially, Emma Mærsk is able to carry around 11,000 TEU according to the Maersk company\'s way of calculating capacity,Odense Steel Shipyard (2006-12-08). "Namegiving of newbuilding L 203". Press release. which is about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying.Koepf, Pam (2006), "Overachievers We Love", Popular Science 269 (6): 24
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By normal calculations, Emma Mærsk\'s cargo capacity is significantly greater than the listed capacity — between 13,500Alexander Bakker (2006-09-12). Big, bigger, biggest. port of Rotterdam. and 14,500 TEU.Bent Mikkelsen (2006-08-29). “Emma Mærsk”– the world’s largest. The Scandinavian Shipping Gazette. The difference between the official and estimated numbers is due to the fact that Maersk calculates the capacity of a container ship by using the number of containers with a weight of 14 tons that can be carried on a vessel. For the Emma Mærsk, this is 11,000 containers.Giant Christmas goods ship docks. BBC News (November 5, 2006). Other companies calculate the capacity of a container ship according to the maximum number of containers that can be put on the ship, independent of the weight of the containers. This number is always greater than the number calculated by the Maersk method.
The ship was built at the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. In June 2006, during construction, welding work caused a fire within her superstructure. It spread rapidly through the accommodation section and bridge.
Emma Mærsk was named in a ceremony on August 12, 2006. The ship is named after Emma Mærsk, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller\'s late wife. She set sail on her maiden voyage on 8 September 2006 at 02:00 hours from Aarhus, calling at Gothenburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Algeciras, the Suez Canal, and arrived in Singapore on 1 October 2006 at 20:05 hours.
Emma Mærsk departed Singapore the next day, headed for Yantian in Shenzhen. She sailed on to Kobe, Nagoya, arrived at Yokohama on 10 October 2006, and returned via Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, the Suez Canal, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Gothenburg and finally to Aarhus, with arrival at that port 11 November 2006 at 16:00 hours.Sailing schedule. Maersk Line.
She hit the headlines in the run-up to Christmas 2006, when she was dubbed SS Santa because she was bound for the United Kingdom from China loaded with Christmas goods. The return journey after Christmas 2006 saw her return to southern China, this time loaded with thousands of tons of UK waste exported for recycling in China.Gaoming Jiang (February 08, 2007). China must say no to imported waste. Chinadialogue.
Her appearance in the news prompted China\'s State Environmental Protection Administration to promise to "closely watch the progress of investigation into the dumping of garbage in south China by Britain". It added that no official approval had been given to any company in the area to import trash.Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration (2007-01-25). "SEPA Warns of Crackdown on Foreign Waste Imports". Press release.
Emma Maersk\'s regular round trip involves Ningbo, Xiamen, Hong Kong (westbound), Yantian (westbound), Tanjung Pelepas (westbound), Algeciras (westbound), Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Algeciras (eastbound), Tanjung Pelepas (eastbound), Yantian (eastbound), Hong Kong (eastbound) and Ningbo.
The Emma Mærsk is powered by a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14RTFLEX96-C engine, currently the world\'s largest single diesel unit, weighing 2,300 tons and capable of 109,000 horsepower (82 MW). The ship has several features to protect the environment. This includes recycling the exhaust, mixed with fresh air, back into the engine for reuse. This not only increases efficiency by as much as 12% but also reduces engine emissions. Instead of biocides, used by much of the industry to keep barnacles off of the hull, a special silicone-based paint is used. This increases the ship\'s efficiency by reducing drag while also protecting the ocean from biocides that may leak. The silicone paint covering the part of the hull below the waterline is credited for lowering the water drag enough to save 1200 tons of fuel per year.
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