APL Coral

At 65,475 gross tons, APL Coral is the 7,011th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,081st by tonnage — larger than 71% 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 APL Coral is the 357th 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 60 are larger by tonnage.

APL Coral was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 74th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 275.0 m overall, APL Coral is 53.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9139749 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9139749, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.