MSC Beatrice
History
Name	MSC Beatrice
Owner	Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Operator	Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Port of registry	Panama
Builder	Samsung Heavy Industries South Korea
Yard number	1709
In service	2009 - present
Identification	Call sign: 3FUF2 IMO number: 9399014 MMSI number: 353162000
Status	In active service
General characteristics
Class and type	MSC Daniela-class container ship
Tonnage	151.559 GT 156.301 DWT
Length	366.1 m (1,201 ft 1 in)
Beam	51 m (167 ft 4 in)
Draught	15 m (49 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	72,240 kW (96,880 hp) MAN B&W 12K98MCC
Speed	25.2 knots (46.7 km/h; 29.0 mph)
Capacity	14000 TEU 1000 TEU (Reefers)
Crew	30

MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14 t each) and is 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) long.^[1] Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength^[2]

She is the second of eight MSC Daniela-class vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries,^[3] with another four class vessels ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), 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 metres (1,312 ft 4 in), the Triple E-class container ship Mærsk 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 13,500 TEU, but now list a container carrying capacity of 18,000 TEU.^[4] Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.

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