MSC Beatrice is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 13,798 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), or 10,500 TEU (14 t each) and is 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) long.^[1] Because of her size the deckhouse was moved forward. This solution increases container capacity as well as improves torsional strength^[2]

She is the second of eight MSC Daniela-class vessels ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries,^[3] with another four class vessels ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a company spun-off from Daewoo in 2000.

Despite her larger claimed capacity, MSC Beatrice is neither the longest container ship in the world, nor does it have the largest tonnage. With a length of nearly 400 metres (1,312 ft 4 in), the Triple E-class container ship Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is the longest container ship in the world, but Maersk, her Danish owners, using a different basis of calculating capacity, initially only claimed a 13,500 TEU, but now list a container carrying capacity of 18,000 TEU.^[4] Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller is the first of a class of 20 identical Triple E vessels.