MSC Madeleine
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MSC Madeleine is one of the world's largest container ships. It was built in 2006 at Guangzhou Shipyard in China, and is operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Design
MSC Madeleine is a large and profitable container ship. It is 348.5 m (1,143.4 ft) long, with a 42.8 m (140.4 ft)-long beam. Its draft is 14.5 m (47.6 ft) when the ship is fully loaded. The maximum cargo capacity is 9,113 TEUTwenty-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...
(Twenty feet units) and the ship's gross tonnage is 107,551 gross tons.
See also
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