MSC Beatrice

MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14 t each) and is 366 m long. Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength

She is the second of eight MSC Daniela-class container ship vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries, with another four class vessels ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a company spun-off from Daewoo in 2000.

Despite her larger claimed capacity, MSC Beatrice is neither the longest container ship in the world, nor does it have the largest tonnage. With a length of nearly 400 m, the Triple E-class container ship Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is the longest container ship in the world, but Maersk, her Danish owners, using a different basis of calculating capacity, initially only claimed a, but now list a container carrying capacity of 18,000 TEU. Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.