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Container ship

Carpathia

IMO 9253038MMSI 636090899Call sign A8HI8LiberiaBuilt 2003

Operated by Wilhelmsen Ahrenkiel Ship Management

Photo: Ashley Dace · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#20,855

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest container ship

#2,001

of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 13 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

IMO number: 9253038
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 636090899
Call sign: A8HI8
Flag state: Liberia

In context

How Carpathia compares

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 28,596 gross tons, Carpathia is the 20,855th 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 4.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,001st by tonnage — larger than 46% 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 Carpathia is the 2,659th 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 314 are larger by tonnage.

Carpathia was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 431st 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 1,480 vessels to HD Hyundai Mipo, with a median tonnage of 29,375 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 222.0 m overall, Carpathia is within a metre of the 221.6 m median length for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9253038 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9253038, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.