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.
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 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✓→