Cape Norman

At 17,285 gross tons, Cape Norman is the 28,657th 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,524th by tonnage — larger than 32% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Cape Norman is the 3,522nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 410 are larger by tonnage.

Cape Norman 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 450th 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.

The registry attributes 175 vessels to Gdańsk Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,899 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 174.0 m overall, Cape Norman is 47.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9121429 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.