Mærsk A-Class (2003)

Mærsk A class

The Arnold Mærsk in Bremerhaven

Ship data Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Mærsk Line, Copenhagen Shipyard Odense Staalskibsvaerft, Lindø, Denmark Construction period 2002 to 2004 Units built 6th Cruising areas Worldwide trip

Ship dimensions and crew length 352.25 m ( Lüa ) 336.40 m ( Lpp ) width 42.80 m Side height 24.10 m Draft Max. 15.00 m measurement 93,496 GT 49,741 NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × HSD-SULZER 12RTA96C two-stroke diesel engine Machine performance 63,000 kW (85,656 hp) Top speed 26.0 kn (48 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 109,000 dw Container 8272 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 817

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping

The Mærsk A-Class ships were the world's largest container ships when they were commissioned from 2003 .

history

The series was built from the beginning of 2002 and delivered from March 2003 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . She continued the development of the previous size record holders, the Regina-Mærsk type , the Sovereign-Mærsk type and the Mærsk C-class , with which it shares a large part of the design parameters. The client for the series was the Copenhagen-based shipping company Maersk Line , where the ships are still in service today. The series was created in 2003/04 in an edition of six ships. The shipping company combines the ships of the A-class within the shipping company fleet with the comparable large predecessor types as the S-class.

The A-class ships are part of the Post-Panamax container ships and have a capacity of 6600 TEU (loaded containers weighing 14 tons each), or 8272 TEU in real parking spaces. The ships can stow 17 containers transversely and a total of 13 layers on top of each other. The main engines used were the most powerful diesel engines on the market at the time.

The next class is the Mærsk M-class .

The ships

Mærsk A class
Building name	Build number	IMO number	Callsign	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Renaming and whereabouts
Axel Mærsk	L185	9260419	OUUY2	April 5, 2002 January 19, 2003 March 3, 2003	so in motion
Anna Mærsk	L186	9260421	OXBA2	June 15, 2002 April 4, 2003 May 27, 2003	so in motion
Arnold Mærsk	L187	9260433	OXES2	June 28, 2002 July 3, 2003 September 5, 2003	so in motion
Arthur Mærsk	L188	9260445	OXJH2	June 25, 2002 October 8, 2003 November 18, 2003	so in motion
Adrian Mærsk	L189	9260457	OXLD2	June 26, 2002 February 25, 2004 April 2, 2004	so in motion
Albert Mærsk	L190	9260469	OUOW2	June 27, 2002 June 21, 2004 August 27, 2004	so in motion
Data: ABS Record

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. ↑ ABS Record (English, start page of the search)

Web links

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