Shipping News: Maersk Line Triple-E LEGO Set Hits the Shelves – SOLD OUT!

This is pretty funny. gCaptain is one our favorite sources for shipping-related intelligence, both their own: "Shipowners Make Big Bets on Markets and Evolving U.S. Export Policies" and linked content: "Crude Tanker Market Recovery Hinges on Ending U.S. Export Ban".
Serious business.

And then there's this. From gCaptain:

Finally… the highly anticipated LEGO version of the world’s largest ship, Maersk Line’s Triple-E, is on sale and ready to order on backorder is sold out!

Sorry folks, but Maersk Line made the announcement Thursday that due to popular demand, the Triple-E LEGO kit is sold out.

With more than 1,500 pieces, features of the Triple-E set include rotating gold-colored propeller blades, brick-built twin 8-cylinder engines, viewing window into the engine compartment, adjustable rudders, detachable lifeboats, removable containers, rotating crane arms and a special good luck coin placed.

For you enthusiasts out there, the model boasts a rare color scheme with medium azur, dark red, sand blue and sand green. The set also includes a display stand and fact plaque with detailed information about the ship.

The Triple-E set was first unveiled by LEGO in September, just a few months after the first real life vessel in the Triple-E class, MV Mc-Kinney Møller, sailed from the DSME shipyard in South Korea, where Maersk has ordered a total 20 of the ships. At 400 meters long and with a capacity to carry 18,000 TEU, the containerships are currently the largest in the world.

You can pick up the Triple-E set for $149.99 from the Lego website, although it seems the model is currently on backorder sold out....MORE

Until his death Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was back and forth with Lego CEO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen for the title of richest Dane.