Cosco Hope

At 141,823 gross tons, Cosco Hope is the 1,642nd 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 24 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 306th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Cosco Hope was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 85th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 587 vessels to HD Hyundai Samho, with a median tonnage of 81,380 GT, delivered between 1995 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 366.0 m overall, Cosco Hope is 144.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 15.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9472165 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2006 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9472165, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.