The Ebba Maersk is a container ship

Container ship

Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...

 owned by the Danish shipping company A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. The fifth of the Mærsk E-class

Mærsk E-class

The Maersk E Series comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit container ships. Each sister ship bear names beginning with the letter "E", tie for the largest container ship ever constructed, and are the longest ships currently in use at 397 metres long and 56 metres wide. They are owned...

, it and its seven sister ships are the largest container ships ever built as well as the longest ships in use. It has a total TEU

Twenty-foot equivalent unit

The twenty-foot equivalent unit is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals...

 capacity of 11,000 TEU 14-ton containers by Maersk definition; however, with standard ratings it can hold 14,770 containers. This rating goes by physical space rather than weight. Her beam is 183 feet (55.8 m), her length 1302 feet (396.8 m), and she has a deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage is a measure of how much weight a ship is carrying or can safely carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, passengers, and crew...

 of 156,907. In May 2010, she was reported with in Tangier

Tanger-med

Tanger-Med is a cargo and passenger port located about 40 km east of Tangier, Morocco. It is one of the largest ports on the Mediterranean and in Africa by capacity and went into service in July 2007. Its initial capacity was 3.5 million shipment containers....

, Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

, the highest equivalent number of any vessel.