Emma Maersk is a container ship owned and operated by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. It is built at the Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. During her launch, Emma Maersk was the largest container ship ever built and as of 2009 she and her 7 sister ships are the longest container ships constructed and the longest ships currently in use.Officially, Emma Maersk is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) according to the Maersk shipping company's method of calculating capacity, which, at her introduction into service, was about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying. By normal calculations, Emma Maersk's cargo capacity is significantly greater than the listed capacity, it is between 13,500 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and 15,200 TEU. The difference between the official and estimated numbers is because Maersk calculates the capacity of a container ship by weight (in this case, 14 tons/container) that can be carried on a vessel. The Emma Maersk is powered by a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14RTFLEX96-C engine, currently the world's largest single diesel unit, weighing 2,300 tons and capable of 109,000 horsepower (82 MW).

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