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.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The Madrid Mærsk's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
The 747-8 bar is the longest airliner ever built — 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.
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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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 Madrid Mærsk line
Triple-E Mk II
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✓→