Mærsk C class (2000)

Mærsk C class

The Charlotte Mærsk in the port of Durban in South Africa

Ship data Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Maersk Line, Copenhagen Shipyard Odense Staalskibsvaerft, Lindø, Denmark Construction period 1999 to 2002 Units built 8th Cruising areas Worldwide trip

Ship dimensions and crew length 346.98 m ( Lüa ) 331.54 m ( Lpp ) width 42.80 m Side height 24.10 m Draft Max. 14.50 m measurement 91,921 GT 53,625 NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × HSD-Wärtsilä New Sulzer Diesel 12RTA96C two-stroke diesel engine Machine performance 63,000 kW (85,656 hp) Top speed 25.5 kn (47 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 110,000 dw Container 8648 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 700

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping

When they were built in 2000, the Mærsk C-Class ships were among the world's largest container ships .

history

The series developed in the second half of the 1990s from the previous size record holder, the Sovereign-Mærsk type , was delivered from June 2000 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . The client for the series was the Copenhagen-based shipping company Mærsk Line , where the ships are still in service today.

The C-class ships are among the Post-Panamax container ships and have a capacity of 6,600 TEU (loaded containers weighing 14 tons each), or 8,648 TEU in real spaces. The ships can stow 17 containers transversely and a total of 13 layers on top of each other. The Maersk C-Class can also be regarded as the third series of the Sovereign-Mærsk type, as the shipping company operates it together with the other S-Class ships. The main construction difference compared to the two series of the S-Class lies in the more powerful two-stroke main engines of the type HSD-Wärtsilä New Sulzer Diesel 12RTA96C. These were the most powerful diesel engines on the market at the time.

In 2011, the deckhouses of most of the ships at the Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Company were increased to increase deck space capacity.

The ships

Mærsk C class
Building name	Build number	IMO number	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Later names and whereabouts
AP Møller	L177	9214898	November 26, 1999 - April 20, 2000	-
Caroline Mærsk	L178	9214903	March 29, 2000 - September 4, 2000	-
Carsten Mærsk	L179	9219795	July 11, 2000 - November 17, 2000	-
Chastine Mærsk	L180	9219800	October 8, 2000 - February 3, 2001	-
Charlotte Mærsk	L181	9245744	October 15, 2001 - March 22, 2002	-
Cornelia Mærsk	L182	9245756	December 21, 2001 April 12, 2002 June 12, 2002	-
Columbine Mærsk	L183	9245768	March 10, 2002 June 28, 2002 September 4, 2002	-
Clementine Mærsk	L184	9245770	May 24, 2002 October 2, 2002 November 7, 2002	-
Data: Equasis, gross tonnage, ABS Record

Web links

Commons : Mærsk C class  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Milestones Maersk (English)
• The S-Class and C-Class ships at steinhagen-modelltechnik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Register at containership-info ( memento of the original from October 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
2. ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
3. ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)
4. ↑ ABS Record. Retrieved July 5, 2017 .