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MSC’s mega-boxship goes to top of the class How the vessels compare
Craig Eason - Tuesday 23 December 2008

AS REPORTED in Lloyd’s List last week, Mediterranean Shipping Co has  
taken possession of its largest containership to date.

The post-panamax MSC Daniela has the capacity to carry 13,800 teu.  
This is over 2,500 teu more than the published capacity of Emma  
Maersk, which gained so much attention when it was launched two years  
ago.

MSC Daniela is the first of eight being built by Samsung Heavy  
Industries in Korea for the shipowner.

But despite the increased nominal capacity, MSC Daniela is 32 m  
shorter, narrower by 5.2 m and of a similar depth to Emma Maersk.

Classed by Germanischer Lloyd, the vessel has seven main cargo holds  
and deck connections for 1,000 40 ft reefer containers.

The most visible difference between the two is that MSC Daniela has a  
‘twin island’ configuration. While leaving the engine room area aft,  
the narrow accommodation and bridge housing has been brought forward.

Safety of Life at Sea regulations stipulate how far forward of the  
vessel the sea must be visible from the bridge. On the majority of  
containerships with the single superstructure much further aft, the  
result is a tapering of container stack heights to achieve this. By  
bringing the bridge further forward, this leaves the majority of the  
stacks, which are now aft of the bridge, able to be loaded higher.

The vessel has also been built using a higher-tensile steel, allowing  
plate thickness to be reduced to give a more lightweight construction.  
Germanischer Lloyd said the design allows less bending and increased  
hull stiffness.

The vessel’s fuel tanks, in keeping with the latest regulations, are  
fitted inside a protected area beneath the deck house. The aft engine  
room also means a shorter propeller shaft and therefore more of the  
potential 98,280 bhp from the 12-cylinder MAN B&W engine transferred  
to the propeller — a six-bladed Mecklenburger weighing 93.8 tonnes in  
front of a Becker-type rudder.

The split accommodation and engine rom will mean further distances for  
the engineers to go when alarms sound during unmanned periods, and  
also more systems cabling between the two areas.

Germanischer Lloyd said the vessel’s design requires less ballast  
water, and it has been designed to have ballast treatment fitted.

Notably, with less width and length than Emma Maersk and AP Moller- 
Maersk’s other E-class vessels, MSC Daniela, while still being post- 
panamax by today’s scale, is designed to be able to traverse the  
Panama Canal when the new locks are completed. The new lock’s chambers  
will be 427 m long, 55 m wide and 18.3 m deep.

Germanischer Lloyd said that containerships can be built with larger  
capacities, but added that the market, rather than technology, was the  
driving force in this decision.

  	MSC Daniela	Emma Maersk
Delivery	2008	2006
Built	SHI, Korea	Odense, Denmark
Owner	MSC	AP Moller-Maersk
Length overall	366 m	398 m
Width	51.2 m	56.4 m
Height of hull	29.9 m (moulded depth)	30.2 m
Gross tonnage	150,350	170,974
Main engine	MAN B&W 12K98MC-C (98,280 hp) 	Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c,  
80,080 kW (109,000 hp)
Auxiliary power	4 x STX 7L32/40 	5 x Caterpillar 8M32
Claimed teu capacity	13,800	11,000
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