«Containerships VII»

At 10,499 gross tons, «Containerships VII» is the 35,122nd 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,973rd by tonnage — larger than 20% 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.

Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which «Containerships VII» is the 130th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 85 container ships flying the Germany flag, of which 68 are larger by tonnage.

«Containerships VII» was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 644th 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 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 158.8 m overall, «Containerships VII» is 62.8 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 8.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9250098 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9250098, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 9×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.