MSC Beatrice is a container ship with the second largest capacity in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit

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...

 (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14t each) and is 366 meters long. Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength

She is the second of eight MSC Daniela

MSC Daniela

MSC Daniela is a container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company that is one of the largest container ships of the world, with a TEU cargo capacity of 14,000 containers. The building of MSC Daniela was started on 1 July, 2006 and finished at the end of 2008; the ship was subsequently...

 class vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries

Samsung Heavy Industries

Samsung Heavy Industries or SHI is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea...

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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 400m, Emma Maersk is the longest container ship in the world, but her owners, using a different basis of calculating capacity, only claim a .

Sister Ships

Built	Ship Name	Shipyard	Hull Number
2008	MSC Daniela MSC Daniela MSC Daniela is a container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company that is one of the largest container ships of the world, with a TEU cargo capacity of 14,000 containers. The building of MSC Daniela was started on 1 July, 2006 and finished at the end of 2008; the ship was subsequently...	Samsung	1708
2009	MSC Beatrice	Samsung	1709
2009	MSC Danit MSC Danit MSC Danit is a large container ship. The ship was ordered by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. and finished at the beginning of March 2009. The ship was built in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Ltd, South Korea under yard number 4135, for Dordellas Finance Corp., Panama.- Design :MSC...	Daewoo	4135
2009	MSC Camille	Daewoo	4136
2009	MSC Kalina	Samsung
2009	MSC Bettina	Samsung	1711
2009	MSC Irene	Samsung	1712
2009	MSC Emanuela	Samsung	1713
2009	MSC Eva	Samsung	1714
2009	MSC Gaia	Samsung	1715
2010	MSC Melatilde	Daewoo	4138
2010	MSC Paloma	Daewoo	4139