Emma Maersk

Emma Maersk is the lead ship of Maersk Line’s eight-vessel E-class, delivered by Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark in 2006 as the largest container ship in the world at the time. She measures 397.7 m length overall and 56.4 m beam, with a declared capacity of about 11,000 TEU but a true nominal capacity near 14,770 TEU (sister Ebba Maersk loaded 15,011 boxes at Tanger-Med in 2010). She is driven by a single Wartsila-Sulzer 14RT-flex96C, then the most powerful diesel built, rated about 80 MW, with a waste-heat-recovery plant feeding shaft and electrical load. Emma Maersk caught fire in the Suez Canal in 2013 and was scrapped after a 2024 grounding.