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IMO 9839430 · MMSI 636019825
MSC Gülsün was the world's largest container ship at her launch in July 2019 — 399.9 m long, 61.5 m wide, 232,618 GT, with a nominal capacity of 23,756 TEU. Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea and flagged Liberia. Named after Gülsün Cansever, wife of MSC shipowner Gianluigi Aponte's operations chief. She led the Megamax-24 generation that pushed containership size past the practical Suez Canal beam limit, forcing schedule redesign at every trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe terminal. Superseded in scale by Ever Ace (2021) and OOCL Spain (2023).
Megamax-24s like Gülsün require a bigger bridge team than pre-2010 container ships — the 23m stack heights obstruct radar and demand more forward-scanning lookouts during approach. Chief mates preparing for command on this class study Ever Given (2021) as the canonical case for how these ships behave in constrained waters.
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MSC Gülsün, at the time of her launch in 2019, was the world's largest container ship . Built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, she is 61.5 metres (201 ft 9 in) wide and 399.9 metres (1,312 ft 0 in) long. With a cargo system designed by MacGregor International AB , the ship has a capacity of 23,756 containers (TEU ) in rows of 24 across. MSC Gülsün is registered in Panama and operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company , Switzerland and the Netherlands.[\[1\]](ht…
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