Emma Maersk
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Name:	Emma Maersk
Owner:	A. P. Moller-Maersk Group
General characteristics
Tonnage:	170,974 GT 55,396 NT
Length:	397 metres (1,300 ft) LOA
Beam:	56 metres (180 ft)
Draft:	15. The A P Moller-Maersk Group ( AP Møller-Mærsk Gruppen) is an international Business conglomerate more commonly known simply as Maersk. 5 metres (51 ft)
Depth:	30 metres (98 ft) (deck edge to keel)
Propulsion:	80 MW (109,000 hp) Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c plus 30 MW (40,000 hp) from five Caterpillar 8M32
Speed:	over 25. The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C Turbocharged Two-stroke Diesel engine is currently considered the largest Reciprocating engine in the world Caterpillar Inc ( is a United States -based Corporation headquartered in Peoria Illinois. 5 knots (47. 2 km/h/29. 3 mph)
Capacity:	156,907 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) 11,000 TEU
Crew:	13, with room for 30

Emma Mærsk is a container ship owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight and variously abbreviated as DWT, D Container ships are Cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers in a technique called Containerization. The A P Moller-Maersk Group ( AP Møller-Mærsk Gruppen) is an international Business conglomerate more commonly known simply as Maersk. When she was launched, Emma Mærsk was the largest container ship ever built, and as of 2008 the longest ship in use. ^[1] Officially, Emma Mærsk is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) according to the Maersk company's method of calculating capacity,^[2] which is about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of Container ships and Container ^[3]

Capacity

By normal calculations, Emma Mærsk's cargo capacity is significantly greater than the listed capacity — between 13,500 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)^[4] and 15,200 TEU. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of Container ships and Container ^[5] The difference between the official and estimated numbers is due to the fact that Maersk calculates the capacity of a container ship by using the number of containers with a weight of 14 tons that can be carried on a vessel. For the Emma Mærsk, this is 11,000 containers. ^[6] Other companies calculate the capacity of a container ship according to the maximum number of containers that can be put on the ship, independent of the weight of the containers. This number is always greater than the number calculated by the Maersk method.

History

Size comparison of some of the longest ships. From top to bottom: Knock Nevis (no longer in service), Emma Mærsk, RMS Queen Mary 2, MS Berge Stahl, and USS Enterprise. History Knock Nevis was built in 1979 at Sumitomo Heavy Industries 's Oppama Shipyard as Seawise Giant. Characteristics The Queen Mary 2 is the current Cunard Flagship and makes regular Transatlantic crossings The MS Berge Stahl is the largest Bulk carrier Ship in the world Design Enterprise was intended to be the first of a class of six but construction costs ballooned and the remaining vessels were never laid down resulting in her

The ship was built at the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. Odense Steel Shipyard (Odense Staalskibsværft located in Odense, Denmark was constructed in 1918–1919 by the A In June 2006, during construction, welding work caused a fire within her superstructure. It spread rapidly through the accommodation section and bridge.

Emma Mærsk was named in a ceremony on August 12, 2006. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The ship is named after Emma Mærsk, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller's late wife. Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (born July 13, 1913) is a Danish Shipping magnate and a billionaire The ship set sail on her maiden voyage on 8 September 2006 at 02:00 hours from Aarhus, calling at Gothenburg, Bremerhaven, Rotterdam, Algeciras, the Suez Canal, and arrived in Singapore on 1 October 2006 at 20:05 hours. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Geography The city lies roughly at the geographical centre of Denmark on the peninsula of Gothenburg ( Swedish:) /jœte'bɔrj/ is a city, a municipality, and an urban area on the west-coast of Sweden. Bremerhaven (bʁeːmɐˈhaːfən is the seaport of the free city and federal state of Bremen, Germany. Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of Algeciras - Arabic: الجزيرة الخضراء is a port city in the south of Spain, and is the largest urban area on the Bay of Gibraltar The Suez Canal is a Canal in Egypt. Opened in 1869 it allows Water transportation between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation Singapore Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Emma Mærsk departed Singapore the next day, headed for Yantian in Shenzhen. Yantian District ( Chinese: 盐田区 Pinyin: Yántián Qū is one of the 6 districts of the Shenzhen City in Guangdong province Shenzhen is a city of sub-provincial administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province situated immediately She sailed on to Kobe, Nagoya, arrived at Yokohama on 10 October 2006, and returned via Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, the Suez Canal, Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Gothenburg and finally to Aarhus, with arrival at that port 11 November 2006 at 16:00 hours. is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1 is the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan. is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders The Port of Tanjung Pelepas ( Abbreviation: PTP, UN/LOCODE MYTPP) is a Port for Container ships located on the eastern mouth of the Pulai The Port of Felixstowe, in Suffolk is the UK's busiest container port dealing with 35% of the country's container cargo Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ^[7]

She hit the headlines in the run-up to Christmas 2006, when she was dubbed SS Santa because she was bound for the United Kingdom from China loaded with Christmas goods. The return journey after Christmas 2006 saw her return to southern China, this time loaded with thousands of tons of UK waste exported for recycling in China. ^[8]

Her appearance in the news prompted China's State Environmental Protection Administration to promise to "closely watch the progress of investigation into the dumping of garbage in south China by Britain". The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China ( Chinese: 中华人民共和国环境保护部 formerly State Environmental Protection Administration It added that no official approval had been given to any company in the area to import waste. ^[9]

Sailing schedules

Emma Maersk's regular round trip involves Ningbo, Xiamen, Hong Kong (westbound), Yantian (westbound), Tanjung Pelepas (westbound), Algeciras (westbound), Rotterdam, Bremerhaven, Algeciras (eastbound), Tanjung Pelepas (eastbound), Yantian (eastbound), Hong Kong (eastbound) and Ningbo. Ningbo ( literally "Tranquil Waves" is a Seaport with sub-provincial administrative status. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Yantian District ( Chinese: 盐田区 Pinyin: Yántián Qū is one of the 6 districts of the Shenzhen City in Guangdong province The Port of Tanjung Pelepas ( Abbreviation: PTP, UN/LOCODE MYTPP) is a Port for Container ships located on the eastern mouth of the Pulai Algeciras - Arabic: الجزيرة الخضراء is a port city in the south of Spain, and is the largest urban area on the Bay of Gibraltar Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of Bremerhaven (bʁeːmɐˈhaːfən is the seaport of the free city and federal state of Bremen, Germany.

Engine and the environment

The Emma Mærsk is powered by a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14RTFLEX96-C engine, currently the world's largest single diesel unit, weighing 2,300 tons and capable of 109,000 horsepower (82 MW). The Wärtsilä RT-flex96C Turbocharged Two-stroke Diesel engine is currently considered the largest Reciprocating engine in the world The ship has several features to protect the environment. This includes recycling the exhaust, mixed with fresh air, back into the engine for reuse. This not only increases efficiency by as much as 12% but also reduces engine emissions. ^[3] Instead of biocides, used by much of the industry to keep barnacles off of the hull, a special silicone-based paint is used. A biocide is a Chemical substance capable of killing living organisms, usually in a selective way A barnacle is a type of Arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence distantly related to ^[3] This increases the ship's efficiency by reducing drag while also protecting the ocean from biocides that may leak. The silicone paint covering the part of the hull below the waterline is credited for lowering the water drag enough to save 1200 tons of fuel per year. In Fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called fluid resistance) is the force that resists the movement of a Solid object through a Fluid (a

Notes

References

• Mærsk fact sheet

External links

• A satellite image of the Emma Maersk or one of her sister ships from Google Maps