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formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking. Larger than Emma Maersk is the The Ultra Large Crude Carrier (now a FPSO) Knock Nevis. We hate to tell the world’s premier business newspaper they forgot one… but they did. Small tugboat pulls the world’s largest ship into port.Ī Comparison of the World’s Largest Ships (from the Wall Street Journal). So you’re wondering what this behemoth powers… right? Nothing less impressive than the Emma Maersk “DU-Sulzer 12RT A96C” translated to “One large MFD” The following photos are from Aioi Works of Japan’s Diesel United who built the first engines for Emma and her sister ships.

And the alone engine weighs in at 2,300 tons and is capable of delivering 109,000 horsepower. To help relate to the size of this monstrous engine consider that one cylinder bore alone is just under 38″ and the stroke is just over 98″. Møller – Mærsk, will need a bigger engines to propel them. Ship owners like the combination of a single engine and single propeller for reasons of efficiency and cost of production vs operation of these mega-vessels. As ships continue to get larger with new generations of larger container ships being built each year shippers like Emma’s owner, A.P.

These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships but similar large diesel engines run large ships of all kinds. It will be extremely vulnerable to a spectacular downfall, even if miraculously built (the last update on the site is from February 2005, when everything still revolved around financing) For. The RTA96-C is the largest engine in the world and is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. Incidentally, the 'Freedom Ship' will possibly also be the largest man-made structure on Earth, which puts it in the same category as the Tower of Babel. The Emma Maersk’s Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel ship engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover of super ships in the world today.

Back… Click HERE to read Part 1 of our Mega Engine Series