World's largest ship on maiden voyage
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Maersk McKinney Moller, the world's largest container ship and first Triple-E class vessel, made a call at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Gelang Patah, Johor, on its maiden voyage from South Korea to Europe.
PTP was the vessel’s last port of call in Asia before it journeys to Rotterdam in The Netherlands today.
The vessel, owned by the Maersk Line, was made by South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and cost a whopping US$190 million (Bt5.9 billion).
The ship, one of 20 such vessels in the world, can hold up to 18,000 twenty-foot containers at any one time. It also holds the world’s record deadweight of 165,000 tonnes.
The vessel towers at 73m tall, weighs 60,000 tonnes, stretches 400m long – about 70m longer and five times heavier than France’s Eiffel Tower.
The Danish shipping company’s country manager for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, Bjarne Foldager, said the vessel was also the most energy-efficient ship in the world.
