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Marchen Maersk
''Gunde Maersk'' is owned and operated by the A.P. Moller Maersk. ''Gunde Maersk'' was one of the largest container ships in the world when she was built. The ''Gunde Maersk'' was christened on 10 May 2008 at Maersk Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. Hull and engine ''Gunde Maersk'' is a fully cellular container ship with a capacity of 11,008 TEU. It was completed in May 2008 by the Odense Steel Shipyard, in yard 212. It has an overall length of 367 meters. It is powered by a Wärtsilä 12RT-Flex96c, 2-stroke A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during one power cycle, this power cycle being completed in one revolution of t ... slow speed diesel engine. This engine is capable of propelling the ''Marchen Maersk'' at a top speed of 25 knots. References {{Reflist Merchant ships of Denmark Container ships Ships of the Maersk Line 2008 ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maersk Line
Maersk Line or Maersk SeaLand is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. Founded in 1928, it is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries. In 2019, it employed 83,625 people where 18,398 of which are vessel crew and the other 65,227 are processing and operations personnel in offices and ports. Maersk Line operates over 708 vessels and has a total capacity of about 4.1 million TEU. History At the beginning of the 1920s, A.P. Moller considered possibilities of going into liner trade business. The tramp trade, where vessels sailed from port to port depending on the demand, was expected to lose ground to liners in time. On 12 July 1928, the vessel ''Leise Mærsk'' left Baltimore on its first voyage from the American East Coast via the Panama Canal to the Far East and back. The cargo co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |