The invention provides a large energy-saving green river container ship which comprises a ship body. The large energy-saving green river container ship is characterized in that the head line of the ship body is in a straight bow shape, the tail line is in a twin skeg shape, a main deck is arranged on the upper surface of the ship body, and a first void compartment and fore peak, an auxiliary machinery room, a cargo hold, an engine room, a fuel oil tank and a tail ballast tank are sequentially arranged under the main deck from the ship head to the ship tail; the fuel oil tank is arranged in the middle of the tail ballast tank, the steering engine room is arranged at the tail of the main deck, the cargo hold extends towards the head from the front wall of the engine room to the back wall of the auxiliary machinery room, a pipe tunnel is formed in the portion under the cargo hold, and energy saving devices are additionally installed on propellers adopted by the ship body. According to the large energy-saving green river container ship, overall arrangement is optimized, the area of the cargo hold and the deck is utilized to the maximum limit, the loading rate is maximized, and the loading quantity is larger than 500 TEU.