Maersk Triple E Class

The Triple E class pushed ship size to about 18,000 TEU and showed carriers competing on cost per container and fuel use, a contest that still shapes freight rates on major lanes. The first ship, Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, was delivered at Okpo, South Korea, on July 2, 2013, the first of 20 ordered; the name stands for economy of scale, energy efficiency, and environmental improvement. Each ship carried about 16% more containers than Emma Maersk. Larger ships lower slot costs, but they unload huge batches at once, which strains terminals, drayage, and inland warehouses whenever one arrives.

• Twenty-Foot Equivalent UnitTEUContainer capacity unit of one 20-foot box
• DrayageTrucking containers from port to warehouse
• Full Container LoadFCLOne shipper's goods in a whole container

• Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller1913–2012 · Maersk leader in the container era

• Emma Maersk2006 · The largest container ship of its day enters service
• Shanghai Becomes World's Busiest Container Port2010 · Shanghai passes Singapore with 29 million TEU
• New Suez Canal2015 · Egypt adds a 35-kilometer parallel channel

1. Triple E-class container ship (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org
2. World's largest containership enters service (ABS) ww2.eagle.org