Maersk Triple-E The World's Largest Ship

The Maersk 'Triple-E' container ship is the biggest vessel in the world. The ship called Triple- because of designed 3 principles with Efficiently, Economy of scale and Environment. 

For the efficiency, the Triple-E is designed and optimized for lower speeds. The unique hull design, energy-efficient engine and system that uses exhaust gas to produce extra energy to help propel the ship, make the Triple-E unmatched in energy efficiency.

 For the economy of scale, the Triple-E breaks the world record in container ship capacity without requiring more engine power and breaks the world record in container ship capacity without requiring more engine power. This design takes economy of scale to a new level and lastly, for the environment, these vessels reduce CO2 emissions by 50% per container moved, compared to industry average on the Asia-Europe trade. These ships are expected to be not only the world's largest ships in service, but also the most efficient containerships per twenty-foot equivalent unit(TEU) of cargo.

For your information the capacity of the Triple-E is the 18,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (or  containers) and compare than to the existing ships that’s three meters longer and three meters wider than the Maersk E-class and the Triple-E offers a 16% increase. Besides that, the dimensions of the Triple-E  is 400 meters long, 59 meters wide and 73 meters high. The weight of the Triple-E is the pure steel weight of the vessel is approximately 55,000 tons. That does not include ballast water, cargo and so on. 

The news in the Triple-E now is the main innovations are two ‘ultra-long stroke’ engines, an innovative efficient shape and advanced waste heat recovery system saving up to 10% of main engine power. The Triple E use the daily consumption to be approximately 100 tons. Shipping is a polluting industry so the must have the impact on the environment. So we believe the Triple-E ships are good news for the environment .How is that possible? The impact of Triple-e on the environment will consume approximately 35 percent less fuel per container than the 13,100 TEU vessels being delivered to other container shipping lines in these years. It will reduce CO2 emissions by more than 50% per container moved, compared to the industry average CO2 performance on the Asia-Europe trade and it will enable better recycling of the materials used to build the ship. Compare to airline, rail or truck? Shipping good by sea is by far most environmentally-friendly transportation mode.

 

The Triple-E will sail an average speed of 16 knots (30 km/hour).This means the Triple-Es will be slow steaming, like the other vessels on the AE10 string where they will be deployed. The slower the ship sails, the less fuel it will burn. It is cost and energy efficient and better for the environment even they are good example of how significant CO2 reductions are possible when the right technologies are combined in new and innovative ways.