MEGA BUILDERS - Building the world's largest container ship, Eugen Maersk (part 1 of 5)

Discovery Channel visits Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark where the last of 8 identical sister ships are being built.

Eugen Maersk (IMO: 9321550, Port of Registry: Randers, Denmark) is, together with her sisters (amongst others) 'Emma Maersk', 'Estelle Maersk', 'Evelyn Maersk' and 'Ebba Maersk', the largest containership ever with a total teu capacity of 11,000 teu (of which 1,000 forty foot reefer containers) according to the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. A total capacity of 13,500 teu is also possible when containers are not fully loaded. This capacity is possible by stacking the containers in 22 rows wide. Maersk calculates the teu capacity with loaded containers. The vessel is 397 meters long, 56 meters wide, has a depth of 30 meters and a deadweigth of 156,907 tons. Amazingly, all this size and capacity requires a crew of only 13. The specially designed Wärtsilä diesel engine delivers 80,000 kW. A waste heat recovery system is installed to optimize the use of the energy produced, so that the engine can deliver up to 90,000 kW. The vessels in this series will also establish new standards for safety and environmental responsibility. Environmentally-safe silicone paint, for example, is used on the hull, below the water line, reducing water resistance, and thereby fuel consumption, by 1,200 tons per year. The ship was delivered by Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd in 2008 as the eighth and last ship in Maersk's PS-class.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• mega
• builders
• discovery
• channel
• world's
• largest
• container
• ship
• odense
• steel
• shipyard
• eugen
• maersk
• mærsk
• line
• L210
• lindo
• lindø

[superdau]

Would be really nice to watch if it weren't for that annyoing narrator's voice. Why do US documentaries always have to be "dramatic"?

[hummer100dkdk]

det kan ikke være bedre (DK)

danske undertekster

(EN)

it can not be better

Danish subtitles

[albeanmagz19]

@superdau I know! and then always saying, one mistake, one delay, one crucial, one whatever!! If only I could say it to the narrator: we know wtf stfu!!!!

[TheMaTaSS]

and the town they show picture from is 12 miles from odense or 20 km... get u facts right, otherwise awesome show

[TheMaTaSS]

its not in odense.... 

[MrDevin712]

@Mileneum69 sarcasm success!!! :D

[4L3XGameplay]

HAHAHAHA GREAT JOB DENMARK!!!!! OWNED USA!!!! TAKE THAT

[Mileneum69]

@MrDevin712 LMAO Anderson Cooper.....he's extremely dramatic what are you talking about?

[Firelife3]

@FlyinRaptorJesus Wärtsilä, finnish power ;)

[unggrabb]

the narrator is very irritating and the high drama ctionmusic is also quite silly

[MrDevin712]

@superdau well, what about Anderson Cooper?

[lionmancer9597]

2:55 Chuck Norris uses two of these to cool down after exercising