OOCL Spain
COSCO Shipping · Container · In service · built by Nantong COSCO KHI (NACKS)
OOCL Spain took the largest-container-ship record in early 2023 and lost it to MSC Irina within months — the shortest reign in the modern record's history.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The OOCL Spain's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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One OOCL Spain = 1.49 Titanics · 3.8 football pitches · 16 blue whales · 5.2 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
The numbers
| Length overall | 399.99 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 61.3 m |
| Capacity | 24,188 TEU |
| Delivered | March 2023 |
| Flag | Hong Kong |
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What makes it different
OOCL Spain briefly wore the crown in the spring of 2023: at 24,188 TEU she out-rated Ever Alot by 184 boxes and became the largest container ship ever built — for roughly three months, until MSC Irina was rated 150 higher.
That she measures 399.99 metres — one centimetre inside 400 — says everything about where the record now lives. Length is capped by berths and canal geometry; beam by crane outreach; so the contest has become a packing problem, won in stack height, lashing systems and hull efficiency.
She sails for OOCL, the Hong Kong line that pioneered the 21,000 TEU class in 2017 with OOCL Hong Kong and has been part of China's COSCO Shipping Group since 2018 — meaning the group holds two separate entries in this size race under two brands.
The OOCL Spain line
Spain class
Who operates the OOCL Spain
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
COSCOSCO ShippingOperated by OOCL — the Hong Kong-based line owned by COSCO Shipping Group — on Asia–Europe services.1✓→