OOCL Hong Kong
COSCO Shipping · Container · In service · built by Samsung Heavy Industries
OOCL Hong Kong was the first container ship in history rated above 21,000 TEU — the ship that made the modern megamax generation inevitable.
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How big is it, really?
The OOCL Hong Kong's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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One OOCL Hong Kong = 1.49 Titanics · 3.8 football pitches · 16 blue whales · 5.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
The numbers
| Length overall | 399.87 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 58.8 m |
| Capacity | 21,413 TEU — first past 21,000 |
| Gross tonnage | ≈210,890 GT |
| Delivered | May 2017 |
| Flag | Hong Kong |
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What makes it different
When OOCL Hong Kong was delivered by Samsung in May 2017 she was a genuine threshold: the first ship in history rated above 21,000 TEU, at a moment when 20,000 had only just been touched by MOL Triumph weeks earlier.
Her G class held the outright record for over a year and, more importantly, standardised the megamax template — just under 400 metres, twenty-three to twenty-four rows across — that every subsequent record ship from HMM Algeciras to MSC Irina has followed rather than exceeded.
Within a year of her delivery OOCL itself was acquired by COSCO Shipping, folding Hong Kong's most storied container line into the Chinese state giant — the brand, and this ship's name, survived the takeover.
The OOCL Hong Kong line
G class
Who operates the OOCL Hong Kong
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
COSCOSCO ShippingOperated by OOCL, part of COSCO Shipping Group since 2018; Asia–Europe rotations.1✓→