Maersk E-class container ship

The Maersk E class, often called the Emma Maersk class, comprises eight container ships whose names each begin with the letter E. Wikipedia gives them a capacity of 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent units, a length of 398 metres and a beam of 56 metres, and says that until 2012 they were the largest container ships ever built. The first, the Emma Maersk, was built by Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark and delivered in 2006. Maersk declared the ships at 11,000 TEU, while analysts and the yard history put the real capacity at 15,500 or more. In 2016 the ships were given more capacity at the Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry yard in China by raising the lashing bridges and adding a floor to the accommodation block. The E class was followed by the larger Triple E class, which Maersk ordered from Daewoo because the Asian yard was more competitive.