The vessel is the flagship of the Maersk Line, having maximum capacity for 20,568 TEU and is just over 1,300 feet long. Madrid Maersk, the second ship to surpass the 20,000 TEU mark, was built in 2017 in South Korea. It has a capacity of 20,124 to 20,160 TEU and it is the first 20,000 TEU container ship – among its sister ships Ever Goods, Genius, Given and Gifted – to be delivered to Taiwan’s cargo shipping giant EVERGREEN which currently operates it. The sister ship of the (in)famous giant cargo ship Ever Given has a high deadweight tonnage (DWT) of 218,000 metric tons (MT), its length is 400 meters and has a breadth of 58.8 meters, making it longer than four soccer fields combined. Here are the world’s 10 biggest container ships in 2021 based on Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) capacity: What the Top 10 of these ships have in common is a length of around 400 meters which is almost as tall as the Empire State Building if turned upright. While the stuck cargo ship “Ever Given” is one of the biggest ships in the world, there are some other marine behemoths which even surpass this giant’s capacity. Since the recent blockade in the Suez Canal, it has put large container ships into the spotlight.
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