Have visited the Majestic Maersk here in Copenhagen this evening - here are the pictures of the world's biggest container ship:

How big is that exactly and how does it compare with some of the largest oil tankers.

Hi Gavin - it is a 400 metre long, 18,000 TEU container ship - 20 are going to be built.

Total weight is 60,000 tons

Length: 400 metres

Height: 73 metres

Beam: 59 metres

Deadweight: 192,800 tonnes

Max speed: 23 knots

- it is designed to cruise slowly, powered by twin 32MW (43,000 BHP) diesel engines driving two propellers at lower design speed than traditional container vessels - giving a claimed reduction in CO2 emissions per container shipped of 37% over previous designs of vessel.

Looks impressive and the whole process sounds very sensible as well.

Looking forward to seeing her pass as she comes up the Channel. In fact she must have passed and I wondered if I had seen her a couple of weeks ago. 

Impressive offices Maersk have just to the right of where the ship is moored. Are the ship models still shown in glass cases in the wall?

Watched a documentary on that the other night , god it is a biggie , they were fitting the shaft ready for the propellor , the propellor alone was over £1,000,000 and it was huge .

The men were polishing the shaft at 04:00 in the morning they were working very long hours  , they were putting it into position a metre at a time , it took ages .

Yes they are - they have beautiful models of the new ship and one little boy was begging his mummy to get him one - but I don't think they are for sale (would be expensive if they were).