Maersk Edinburgh-class container ship

Maersk Edinburgh class

Container ship Maersk Elba at Gdańsk Deepwater Container Terminal in 2011
Class overview
Builders	Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries
Operators	Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company, CMA CGM
In service	2010–present
Planned	13
Completed	13
Active	13
General characteristics
Type	Container ship
Tonnage	140,580 DWT (max) 59,800 NT
Length	366 m (1,200 ft 9 in)
Beam	48.2 m (158 ft 2 in)
Draft	14.50–15.50 m (47 ft 7 in – 50 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	Hyundai-Wärtsilä 12RT-flex 96C two-stroke diesel engines (68,640 kW (92,050 hp)) Bow thrusters (2 x 1,800 kW (2,400 hp))
Speed	24.3 knots (45.0 km/h; 28.0 mph)
Capacity	13,092 TEU 800 TEU (reefers)

The Edinburgh class (also known as the Pearl class) is a series of post-Panamax container built for Rickmers Group and Zodiac Maritime and were chartered to Maersk The ships were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.^[1]

The series was ordered from Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2007 to 2008 and delivered starting July 2010. The client of the series is the Hamburg-based Rickmers Group and were chartered to Maersk. The Explorer class and Daniela class are also based on the same design, but both broader.^[2]

The Maersk Edinburgh class, along with the Explorer class were designed for a slow steaming container service from Europe to East Asia. The beginning of the service with the abbreviations FAL 5 and AE8 was already planned for the summer of 2009, but was not realised due to the financial crisis of 2007–2008. It will run through the ports of Le Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Port Kelang, Singapore, Ningbo, Shanghai, Shenzhen-Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Kelang, and back to Le Havre. As of 2010, the ships of the Maersk Edinburgh class were introduced to the FAL5 / AE8 Far East Europe service.^[1]

The Maersk Elba visited Gdansk on May 11, 2011, becoming the largest container vessel ever handled by a Baltic Sea port, and then visited Port of Haifa in 2017 to set a record for the largest ship to dock in Israel.^[3][4]

• Maersk Triple E-class container ship

• Ship information from Rickmers Group (13.000 TEU Class)