MSC Beatrice
MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit, or 10,500 TEU and is 366 meters long. Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength
She is the second of eight MSC Daniela class vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries, with another four class vessels ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, a company spun-off from Daewoo in 2000.
Despite her larger claimed capacity, MSC Beatrice is neither the longest container ship in the world, nor does it have the largest tonnage. With a length of nearly 400 meters, the Triple E class Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the longest container ship in the world, but Maersk, her Danish owners, using a different basis of calculating capacity, initially only claimed a, but now list a container carrying capacity of 18,000 TEU. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.
