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Container ship
Operator on record: Costamare Shipping Co SA
Photo: Ra Boe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#2,749
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#481
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Cosco Hellas is a container ship owned by Caravokyra Maritime Corp and operated by Costamare Shipping. Its port of registry is Valletta, Malta. Cosco Hellas is a sister ship of the COSCO Beijing. Cosco Hellas has three other sisters: Cosco Ningbo, Cosco Yantian and Cosco Guangzhou. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said on July 28, 2006, during the christening ceremony for the Chinese-leased container ship in Piraeus, that the Cosco Hellas emphasized the close bonds of friendship between the Greek and Chinese peoples in the best possible way.
On July 11, 2006, Wei Jiafu, captain of Cosco Hellas, attended China Maritime Day at the port of Shanghai. The purpose of the celebration was to honour the ten distinguished leaders in Chinese maritime industry. The event was mastered by the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Communications of China, Xu Zuyuan.
On June 3, 2025, Cosco Hellas rescued the 22 crew members of the Morning Midas, a roll-on/roll-off ship that caught fire 300 miles south of Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 109,149 gross tons, Cosco Hellas is the 2,749th 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 18 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 481st by tonnage — larger than 87% 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.
Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which Cosco Hellas is the 110th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 11 container ships flying the Greece flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Cosco Hellas 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 33rd 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 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 350.6 m overall, Cosco Hellas is 129.0 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 42.8 m and a draft of 14.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9308510 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9308510, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| APL Columbus | 2014 | 109,712 |
| Maersk Antares | 2007 | 109,534 |
| Maersk Algol | 2008 | 109,534 |
| Cosco Hellas (this ship) | 2006 | 109,149 |
| CSCL Pusan | 2006 | 108,069 |
| CSCL Long Beach | 2007 | 108,069 |
| CSCL Zeebrugge |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Baltic Sunrise
2005 · 163,465 GT · Marshall Islands
Baltic Glory
2005 · 163,465 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Jabriyah II
2007 · 161,113 GT · Kuwait
LNG Adamawa
2005 · 115,993 GT · Bermuda

COSCO Yantian
2006 · 109,149 GT

Cosco Beijing
2006 · 109,149 GT · Malta

Cosco Ningbo
2006 · 109,149 GT · Greece

CMA CGM Fidelio
2006 · 107,898 GT · France
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from COSCO Hellas on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Ra Boe, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2007 |
| 108,069 |