The Gudrun Maersk is a very large container ship

Container ship

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, capable of carrying 8,500 TEU

Twenty-foot equivalent unit

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 and with a deadweight (DWT) of 115,700 metric tons. The ship was built in 2005 and is operated by the Maersk Line.

Design

The container vessel Gudrun Maersk was constructed at the Odense Steel shipyard in Denmark

Denmark

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 and launched in 2005. At the time it was the world's largest container vessel, a title it lost in 2006 to the Emma Maersk. The Gudrun Maersk has a capacity of 8,500 TEU. The length of the vessel is 367 m (1,204.1 ft) and the beam is 43 m (141.1 ft).
The vessel deadweight is 115,700 metric tons with a gross tonnage of 97,933 metric tons.
The maximum power of the Sulzer

Wärtsilä

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 12RT-flex96C low-speed common rail

Common rail

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 main engine of Gudrun Maersk is 68,640 kW (93,211 bhp)at 102 rpm.
Gudrun and her 5 sister ships use exhaust heat recovery and cogeneration

Cogeneration

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, producing 6MWe

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 and reducing the need for diesel generator

Diesel generator

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