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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

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

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller launched the Triple-E era in 2013: Economy of scale, Energy efficiency, Environmental performance, the manifesto ship of slow steaming.

Length overall399.2 m
Beam59 m
Gross tonnage194,849 GT
Speed23 kn
Delivered2013
Draft16 m
Our numbers

Derived metrics

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

TEU per metre#12 of 13
45.8 TEU/m nominal TEU ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#124 of 142
6.77 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller399.2 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 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller = 1.48 Titanics · 3.8 football pitches · 16 blue whales · 5.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

#16 of 142 by length → #21 by gross tonnage → Run the Canal-Fit Checker →
Specification

The numbers

Length overall399.2 m
Beam59 m
Capacity18,270 TEU
Gross tonnage194,849 GT
Design speed≈19 kn (twin-engine, slow-steaming design)
DeliveredJuly 2013
FlagDenmark

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The story

What makes it different

The Triple-E was a philosophical U-turn expressed in steel. Emma Mærsk's generation chased speed; Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, delivered in 2013 as the largest ship in the world, was designed around going slower, a fuller, boxier hull, twin smaller engines instead of one monster, and a design speed cut by a quarter that halved fuel burn per container.

The name spells out the manifesto, Economy of scale, Energy efficiency, Environmentally improved, and honours Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, the shipping patriarch who ran the group for over half a century and died the year before her delivery.

Twenty Triple-Es came from DSME in Korea, and the template, maximum boxes per tonne of fuel rather than maximum knots, is the one every megamax since has followed. Her 18,270 TEU record stood until MOL Triumph crossed 20,000 in 2017.

The class

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller line

Triple-E class
Lead of twenty ships from DSME (2013–15); the second-generation Triple-Es led by Madrid Mærsk followed from 2017. Named for the group's legendary long-time chief.
Operators

Who operates the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

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

MSKMaerskAsia–Europe network mainstay since 2013.1✓→
Quick answers

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, asked and answered

How long is the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller?
399.2 m (1,310 ft) length overall, the #16 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 3.8 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller compared to the Titanic?
The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is 1.48× the Titanic's length, 399.2 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 194,849 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT, roughly 4.2 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller?
Maersk. Current status: in service.
Does the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller fit through the Panama Canal?
No. At 399.2 m long, 59 m wide and 16 m of draft, the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller exceeds even the Neopanamax gauge (366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m), run any gauge on the Canal-Fit Checker.
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