Emma Maersk

Emma Maersk showed that bigger ships could cut the cost of moving each container across the ocean, a logic that still shapes ocean freight rates and port planning. Maersk officially rated her at about 11,000 TEU, though industry experts estimated she could carry several thousand more, and no container ship in service was larger when she was delivered in 2006. Rival carriers soon ordered similar ships, which pushed ports to deepen berths and buy taller cranes. For shippers, the result was lower slot costs on major east-west lanes but fewer, larger sailings, so one delayed vessel now affects far more containers and inventory plans.

• Twenty-Foot Equivalent UnitTEUContainer capacity unit of one 20-foot box
• Full Container LoadFCLOne shipper's goods in a whole container
• Intermodal FreightFreight moved by rail and truck in one box

• Malcom McLean1913–2001 · Father of containerization
• Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller1913–2012 · Maersk leader in the container era

• Ideal X First Container Voyage1956 · The first commercially successful container ship sails
• Maersk Acquires Sea-Land1999 · Maersk buys Sea-Land's international container line
• Maersk Acquires P&O Nedlloyd2005 · Maersk becomes the largest container line by far

1. Emma Maersk (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org
2. Emma Maersk reference (Deltamarin) deltamarin.com