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Madrid Mærsk

Maersk · Container · In service · built by Hanwha Ocean (DSME)

Madrid Mærsk opened the second Triple-E generation in 2017 and carried Maersk past the 20,000 TEU line for the first time.

Length overall399 m

Beam58.6 m

Gross tonnage214,286 GT

Speed22 kn

Delivered2017

Draft16.5 m

Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification, see how we calculate these.

TEU per metre#8 of 13

51.5 TEU/m nominal TEU ÷ length overall

Length-to-beam ratio#120 of 142

6.81 length overall ÷ beam

Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Madrid Mærsk's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Madrid Mærsk399 m

Eiffel Tower (height)330 m

Titanic269.06 m

Football pitch105 m

Boeing 747-876.3 m

Blue whale25 m

You (probably)1.75 m

The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m), our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.

One Madrid Mærsk = 1.48 Titanics · 3.8 football pitches · 16 blue whales · 5.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

#17 of 142 by length → #18 by gross tonnage → Run the Canal-Fit Checker →

Specification

The numbers

Length overall	≈399 m
Beam	58.6 m
Capacity	20,568 TEU
Gross tonnage	214,286 GT
Delivered	April 2017
Flag	Denmark

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The story

What makes it different

Madrid Mærsk is the quiet record-holder of the 2017 size war: delivered days after MOL Triumph became the first ship rated past 20,000 TEU, she carried a higher figure, 20,568, and briefly made Maersk the owner of the world's largest ship again.

She leads the Triple-E Mark II generation: the same efficiency-first philosophy as Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with the deckhouse pushed higher and forward to stack one more tier of containers, squeezing over two thousand extra TEU from essentially the same hull envelope.

The capital-city-named class became eleven strong, and today they run inside the Gemini Cooperation, the hub-and-spoke network Maersk launched with Hapag-Lloyd in 2025 that reorganised the Asia–Europe trade around schedule reliability.

The class

The Madrid Mærsk line

Triple-E Mk II

Lead of eleven second-generation Triple-Es (2017–19), all named for capital cities, with a raised bridge and extra tier of boxes over the first generation.

Operators

Who operates the Madrid Mærsk

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

MSKMaerskAsia–Europe service; now operating within the Gemini network with Hapag-Lloyd.1✓→

Quick answers

Madrid Mærsk, asked and answered

How long is the Madrid Mærsk?

399 m (1,309 ft) length overall, the #17 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 3.8 football pitches end to end.

How big is the Madrid Mærsk compared to the Titanic?

The Madrid Mærsk is 1.48× the Titanic's length, 399 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 214,286 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT, roughly 4.6 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.

Who operates the Madrid Mærsk?

Maersk. Current status: in service.

Does the Madrid Mærsk fit through the Panama Canal?

No. At 399 m long, 58.6 m wide and 16.5 m of draft, the Madrid Mærsk exceeds even the Neopanamax gauge (366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m), run any gauge on the Canal-Fit Checker.

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