MSC Beatrice

MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14 t each) and is 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) long.[1] Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength[2]

MSC Beatrice
History
Name: MSC Beatrice
Owner: Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Operator: Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Port of registry:  Panama
Builder:
Yard number: 1709
In service: 2009 - present
Identification:
Fate: Operational
General characteristics
Class and type: MSC Daniela-class container ship
Tonnage:
  • 151.559 GT
  • 156.301 DWT
Length: 366.1 m (1,201 ft 1 in)
Beam: 51 m (167 ft 4 in)
Draught: 15 m (49 ft 3 in)
Propulsion: 72,240 kW (96,880 hp) MAN B&W 12K98MCC
Speed: 25.2 knots (46.7 km/h; 29.0 mph)
Capacity:
  • 14000 TEU
  • 1000 TEU (Reefers)
Crew: 30

She is the second of eight MSC Daniela-class vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries,[3] with another four class vessels ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a company spun-off from Daewoo in 2000.

Despite her larger claimed capacity, MSC Beatrice is neither the longest container ship in the world, nor does it have the largest tonnage. With a length of nearly 400 metres (1,312 ft 4 in), the Triple E-class container ship Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is the longest container ship in the world, but Maersk, her Danish owners, using a different basis of calculating capacity, initially only claimed a 13,500 TEU, but now list a container carrying capacity of 18,000 TEU.[4] Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.

References
  1. Containership-Info: MSC Beatrice
  2. D. Tozer and A. Penfold: Ultra-Large Container Ships (ULCS)
  3. Wright, Doug (13 April 2009). "MSC provides a rich variety of tonnage". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  4. "Triple-E Class Container Ships". ship-technology.com. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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