The Maersk Mc - Kinney Moller, the first EEE - Class 18,000 TEU capacity vessel now in service continued its maiden voyage with a port call at the APM Terminals - Cargo Service A/S facility at Aarhus, Denmark’s largest port, and Scandinavia’s second - busiest port by container throughput, said in the company's press release.
While at the deep - water APM Terminals - Cargo Service A/S terminal, the Maersk Mc - Kinney Moller discharged 697 containers and loaded 771 , achieving a productivity rate of 3 5 moves per hour (MPH) per crane . “Thi s is a very special day for Denmark and for the terminal ” s aid APM Terminals - Cargo Service A/S CEO Johan Uggla . The Aarhus facility, equipped with four super post - Panamax cranes and three post - Panamax cranes , is one of only a few Europe an ports with the draft and cranes to accommodate EEE - Class vessels, which are loaded 23 containers wide. At 400 meters (nearly a quarter of a mile) in length , the EEE - Class vessels, of which the Maersk Mc - Kinney Moller is the first of 20 to be delivered, are currently the largest vessel afloat of any kind, 73 meters in height (as tall as a 24 - story building) and 59 meters wide .
APM Terminals - Cargo Service A/S was established in September 2010 through the merg er of the operations of APM Terminals Aarhus with the adjacent Cargo Service terminal facility. The port offers a deep - water 1 4 - meter berth depth and serves as a transshipment hub for Scandinavian and Baltic Sea cargoes, with direct rail service to Copenhagen. Throughput at the combined terminal in 2012 was 400,000 TEUs , second only to Gothenburg, Sweden in container traffic among Scandinavian ports. The Aarhus call will be fol lowed by stops at APM Terminals Gothenburg and APM Terminals Tanger - Med, in Morocco .