Box Queen

At 52,701 gross tons, Box Queen is the 9,311th 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 8.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,264th by tonnage — larger than 66% 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.

Box Queen was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 297th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 227 vessels to Stocznia Gdynia, with a median tonnage of 23,817 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 291.7 m overall, Box Queen is 70.1 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 13.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9252096 this registry holds 82 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2001 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9252096, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.