The latest ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) to wear the crown for the title of the ‘world’s largest containership’, and one of the first vessels to surpass the 20,000 mark, has...

Just two weeks after the delivery of the first containership to surpass the 20,000 TEU mark, the record for the world’s largest containership has been broken yet again with the delivery of the...

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line’s 11 second generation Triple-E class vessels, due to be delivered from April next year through to May 2018, could become the first...

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Since the launch of its vessel upgrade programme in 2011, with the conversion of 17 of its S Class 8,200 teu ships to 9,600 teu, Maersk Line...

ShippingTV: With the wind gusting up to 44 knots as she comes alongside, Maersk Mc-kinney Moller needs 4 tugs to berth safely at the Port of Felixstowe, around noon, 13th...

By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar The withdrawal of services during the winter slack season will, in the next few weeks, propel laid-up cellular capacity past the million-teu watershed to its...

The Triple-E containership Madison Maersk leaves the Port of Rotterdam carrying 17,152 TEU – a record according to Maersk. Maersk says the vessel also had a record number of 298...

Maersk Line this week christened its newest giant Triple-E containership, MV Marchen Maersk, during a ceremony in Felixstowe. Marchen Maersk is the 19th Triple-E to set sail since the delivery...

  International classification society ABS has been selected to class 11 ultra-large containerships (ULCs) for Denmark’s Maersk Line A/S. Maersk ordered the 19,630 TEU ships from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine...

Maersk Line, a unit in shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk, said on Tuesday it had ordered 11 ultra-large container vessels from South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) .

This two-part series comes to us from Shipping TV‘s Chris Gosling who was aboard the tug Svitzer Stanford for the maiden call of the Triple-E containership Matz Maersk at the...

This is how much size matters in the shipping industry: Bragging rights for the world’s largest container ship have changed hands four times in as many months - - and will soon shift again.

On February 26th, the Triple-E class MV Munkebo Maersk became the largest ship ever to navigate the River Thames.

Check out this awesome time-lapse showing the construction of a Triple-E (lego kit) at the LSME shipyard (that would be Lego Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering).

Move over Triple-E's, there's a new big dog in town.

We saw a short clip of this video earlier this month along with a New York Times feature article, “Aboard a Cargo Colossus“, so consider this the extended version with interviews with the...

A Maersk Triple-E containership played host recently to a Royal Danish Navy anti-piracy training exercise in preparation for real anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden, where Danish troops are...

Here’s a clip from an interesting article featured on the New York Times website this week about life aboard one of the world’s largest cargo ships. The video above and article highlights...

By Clement Tan and Kyunghee Park Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — In shipping these days, bigger is better. Even if it’s just one meter. China Shipping Container Lines Co. is ready...

On July 21, 2014, the MV Mary Maersk departed Algeciras, Spain with a world record 17,603 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), the most TEU's ever loaded onto a single vessel.