Everything about Emma M Rsk totally explained
Emma Mærsk is a
container ship owned by the
A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. When she was launched,
Emma Mærsk was the largest container ship ever built, and as of 2007 the longest ship in use. Officially,
Emma Mærsk is able to carry around according to the Maersk company's method of calculating capacity, which is about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying.
Capacity
By normal calculations,
Emma Mærsk's cargo capacity is significantly greater than the listed capacity — between and . 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. 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
The ship was built at the
Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. 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. The ship is named after Emma Mærsk,
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller's late wife. 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.
Emma Mærsk departed Singapore the next day, headed for
Yantian in
Shenzhen. 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.
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.
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". It added that no official approval had been given to any company in the area to import waste.
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.
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 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.
Instead of
biocides, used by much of the industry to keep
barnacles off of the hull, a special silicone-based paint is used.
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.
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