As usual very nice pics!

For those of you who have the interest have some pics taken during "open ship" arrangement in Copenhagen 27th September 2013:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66782248@N02/

But warning: Not in the quality provided by Vlad :-)

Interesting conversation, and Vlad is quite correct when he says that expects double the faults etc as the EEE's have double of everything so is atands to reason plus there will always be teething troubles on any new series of vessel.
I have spoken to a Doosan service engineer and he has been out to one of the EEE vessel three times in just a couple of months.
The bulb does indeed look small but is still 18m long!

Rgds
Andrew

Thanks for your answers ,gents, much appreciated.

Sorry, apparently a problem with my link to the story. An alternative way is to Google "emma maersk we did it". Niels

The detailed story about EMMA at Port Said can be found at
www.maerskstories.maersk.com/post/55870390003/we-did-it

- and thanks, lappino, for the steady stream of excellent photos of new ships from the Super Yard :-)

@spotti,

My bad, did not read carefully what tonker asked.

So, I will say again that so far EEE did not report any problems. As for Emma, we know what happened at Port Said, as well as the problems inherent to 140 (?) m long main shafting arrangement. I think it is here on Shipspotting.com that there is a picture with makeshift ventilators fixed along the shaft to cool the bearings down... :)

Rgds

Vlad

Tonker and lappino: In case "the first E-class" - which actually had a different Maersk class-name - means the Emma-class, some of these vessels had some problems. Estelle had some serious problems with the aft propeller bearing (don't know the exact name)and the worst problem had Emma, which due to a design/construction flaw/error had a 16 meter flodded engine room at Port Said. The engine room had to be completely dismantled. Niels

This is how rumors are born...there has been no official mention of any problems.

Rgds

Vlad

Hello, gentlemen, I was reading with interest some of your comments on here regarding the triple E`s, and I noticed a mention of the first E class having some problems, can I please ask out of curiosity what sort of problems they had? Thanks.

Wow!

Didn't know of that one! Thanks for the info!

Rgds

Vlad

If you don't like the Triple E..here's a smaller one.
It has twin propellors like the Triple E..and has accomidation..Slightly forward of Midships.
It's like a MINI Triple E.

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1108111

Nice shot!

I'm looking forward to welcome all the Triple-E ships in my hometown, Aarhus, Denmark.

Cheers

Allan
Allan J. Kortsen
www.skyaviator.dk

Hi Capt. Ted,

EEE does have twice of pretty much everything. And then doubled, of course. Since it has two engines with two separate and independent engine rooms.

Data on machinery systems of this class is now freely available on the site of its Classification Society, ABS.

This is exactly what I had in mind when I said that the number of faults will be double.

There is no other container vessel design in the several last decades with such arrangement.

Also, I had heard a comment from one ch. eng. that compared to other vessels, Maersk ones are like starship Enterprise compared to Soyuz T12. From what I saw, EEE's bridge does look more sophisticated than the one of some 13.000 TEU vessel, and we are talking about the same generation vessels.

Again, all I am saying is that I don't expect EEE vessels to be much different safety/operation/maintenance-wise than their smaller colleagues, including all the drawbacks due to vessel's size vs. small number of crew.

Rgds

Vlad

Just to note that the tripple E's are not Panamax size, they are Post-Panamax :-)
Smaller bulbous bow's are all the latest "fashion" in shipbuilding, as speed is not the major concern, but fuel savings are...at 650 to 750 USD pr ton, that is understandable. Great picture!

Hi Lappino
Twice of everything is now on new ships standard and should not warrant a longer warranty policy. Or does it mean,when it is twice installed it can break down "longer" ? Hardly.
And everything new,, usually the systems are doubled, not different systems. They are sure the last version on the market but rest assured that also for the tripe EEE were not totally new radars or ECDIS systems developed,, also when seemingly a lot people think that Maersk has only the best and the rest still use paddles. But look at the problem history of the first E-class,,that should say enough that problems are always involved,,special on new ships. generally, for my experience, that less automatisation that less problems and easier to sail

I learned the other day that EEE's warranty period is 2 years, and not the "usual" 1 year. This means that there are enough new(ish) systems installed to require more time to actually prove the quality of their operation (but can also be just marketing point). As far her flaws are concerned - for every EEE I expect double the number of faults "normal" for some Panamax vessel...but only because EEE has twice of everything! ;)

Rgds

Vlad

Will see how long it takes when we hear the first flaws of it. The bulb size is just fine,, if it would be much bigger it would work counter productive as to her general bow/hull shape

I see a trend here.
A trend of expecting everything about this enormous ship to be equally enormous...:)
I remember when gcaptain commented that "her lifeboats are small" I wanted to say something like "well, maybe original plans had two 800 TEU feeders as lifeboats"...:)
This relatively small bulb just shows how large her hull is, which is obvious when a Triple E is berthed next to, say, a 13.000 TEU vessel...

Rgds

Vlad

Impressive indeed, but what a little bulb she has!

Impressive pictures of an impressive vessel. Thanks for sharing!