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Largest in this registry
#207
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#93
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 195,636 gross tons, Al Nefud is the 207th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 33 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 93rd by tonnage — larger than 97% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Al Nefud is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 154 container ships flying the Malta flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Al Nefud was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 400.0 m overall, Al Nefud is 178.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 16.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9708813 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2013 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9708813, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 8×3 + 1×2 = 163 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester Maersk | 2018 | 196,000 |
| Munich Mærsk | 2017 | 196,000 |
| Marseille Maersk | 2018 | 196,000 |
| Al Nefud (this ship) | 2015 | 195,636 |
| COSCO Shipping Libra | 2018 | 194,864 |
| COSCO Shipping Sagittarius | 2018 | 194,864 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographBy kees torn, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| COSCO Shipping Virgo |
| 2018 |
| 194,864 |