MSC Beatrice
title: "MSC Beatrice" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["container-ships", "ships-built-by-samsung-heavy-industries", "2009-ships"] topic_path: "general/container-ships" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSC_Beatrice" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| section1 | {{Infobox ship/image |
| image | MSC Beatrice.jpg |
| image_caption | MSC Beatrice |
| section2 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| name | MSC Beatrice |
| owner | Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. |
| operator | Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. |
| registry | |
| builder | *Samsung Heavy Industries |
| yard_number | 1709 |
| in_service | 2009 - present |
| identification | *Call sign: 3FUF2 |
| status | In active service |
| section3 | {{Infobox ship/characteristics |
| class | |
| tonnage | * |
| length | 366.1 m |
| beam | 51 m |
| draught | 15 m |
| propulsion | 72240 kW MAN B&W 12K98MCC |
| speed | 25.2 kn |
| capacity | * |
| crew | 30 |
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|display_title=ital |section1={{Infobox ship/image | image = MSC Beatrice.jpg | image_caption = MSC Beatrice
|section2={{Infobox ship/career | hide_header = | name = MSC Beatrice | owner = Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. | operator = Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. | registry = | route = | ordered = | builder =*Samsung Heavy Industries
- South Korea | original_cost = | yard_number = 1709 | way_number = | laid_down = | launched = | completed = | christened = | acquired = | maiden_voyage = | in_service = 2009 - present | out_of_service = | identification =*Call sign: 3FUF2
| fate = | status = In active service | notes =
|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics | hide_header = | header_caption = | class = | tonnage =*
| displacement = | length = 366.1 m | beam = 51 m | height = | draught = 15 m | draft = | depth = | decks = | deck_clearance = | ramps = | ice_class = | sail_plan = | power = | propulsion = 72240 kW MAN B&W 12K98MCC | speed = 25.2 kn | capacity =*
- (Reefers) | crew = 30 | notes = MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14 tonnes each) and is 366 m long. Because of her size, the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity and improves torsional strength.
She is the second of eight vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries, 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 m, the 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. Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.
References
References
- "Containership-Info: MSC Beatrice".
- [http://www.antiport.de/doku/gutachten/ulcs.pdf D. Tozer and A. Penfold: Ultra-Large Container Ships (ULCS)]
- Wright, Doug. (13 April 2009). "MSC provides a rich variety of tonnage". [[Otago Daily Times]].
- "Triple-E Class Container Ships".
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