MOL Triumph
Ocean Network Express · Container · In service · built by Samsung Heavy Industries
MOL Triumph crossed the line the whole industry had been circling: the first ship in history with a nominal capacity above 20,000 TEU.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The MOL Triumph's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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One MOL Triumph = 1.49 Titanics · 3.8 football pitches · 16 blue whales · 5.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
The numbers
| Length overall | ≈400 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 58.8 m |
| Capacity | 20,170 TEU — first past 20,000 |
| Delivered | March 2017 |
| Flag | Panama |
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What makes it different
Twenty thousand TEU was container shipping's four-minute mile, and MOL Triumph ran it first: delivered by Samsung in March 2017 at a nominal 20,170, she was the first ship in history past the line — for about two weeks, until Madrid Mærsk was handed over with a higher rating.
Ordered by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines at the bottom of the freight-rate cycle, she was a bet that scale would win the coming consolidation. It half-worked: within a year Japan's three great lines — MOL, NYK and K Line — merged their container businesses into Ocean Network Express, and Triumph now sails in ONE's unmistakable magenta.
Her record footnote is short but real, and her class marks the exact moment the industry's growth curve began to flatten: nine years later, the largest ship afloat carries only about twenty percent more than she does.
The MOL Triumph line
Triumph class
Who operates the MOL Triumph
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
ONEOcean Network ExpressDelivered to MOL, operated within ONE — the combined container line of MOL, NYK and K Line — since 2018.1✓→