Odense Steel Shipyard

Odense Steel Shipyard, in Danish Odense Staalskibsværft, was a Danish shipbuilder at Odense owned by the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and best known for the container ships it built for its parent. The first yard opened in 1918 to 1919, and its first completed ship was the cargo steamship Robert Mærsk in 1920. A new yard with larger facilities was built in 1957 to 1959 at Lindø near Munkebo, and all operations moved there in 1966. The Lindø yard built oil tankers and bulk carriers, its first roll-on roll-off ship in 1979 and its first container ship in 1980, and it later built the Maersk E class, which were the largest container ships in the world in 2006. After the 2008 financial crisis Maersk announced the closure of the yard in 2009, and the last newbuilding, the frigate Niels Juel for the Royal Danish Navy, was delivered in January 2012. In this atlas it is the make behind the ship classes the yard designed and built.