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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#27 of 45
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 bar is the longest airliner ever built — 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 45 by length → #19 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 45 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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