Largest containership in the world ‘Triple-E’ fi rst tested at MARIN!


MARIN was delighted to take part in a truly historic milestone in the industry when Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) asked MARIN to investigate the seakeeping ability of what would become the largest container vessel in the world - Maersk Line’s Triple-E.


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ARIN carried out an extensive scope of work, combining numerical predictions and basin


model tests to provide the most complete qualification of the vessel’s behaviour in various sea conditions.


A very important yet unfortunately, too rare, feature of this project was that MARIN could count not only on the support of the shipyard but also on that of the future owner. Maersk Line and Maersk Maritime Technology took an active role in the preparations of the different activities, showing clearly its intention to be involved in all parts of the development of its future Triple-E Class. Direct communication lines with the owner


were without doubt key to the project’s success, since it was possible to account for the owner’s wishes right from the project kick-off.


Close cooperation Operational information provided by the owner could then be used as input for the preliminary numerical work, as well as for the basin model tests. Using MARIN’s in-house strip theory code SHIPMO, a preliminary estimate of the ship motions and accelerations at crucial locations could be achieved for a large number of conditions in a short time. Calculations were also conducted for several conditions with the in-house 3D panel code FATIMA in order to obtain an initial impression of the wave-in-


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