The Eugen 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 Maersk. The eighth and newest of the Maersk PS-Class, built in 2008, 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

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 capacity of 11,000 TEU containers; however, with other ratings it can hold 13,500 containers. This rating goes by physical space rather than weight. Her beam is 183 feet, her length 1302 feet, 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.

The construction of this ship was the subject of a television documentary on The Science Channel