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Container ship
Operator on record: China Shipping Container Lines
Photo: kees torn · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#262
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#129
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
CSCL Arctic Ocean is a container ship, operated by China Shipping Container Lines.
At the time of her construction she and her four sister ships—Globe, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean—were the largest container ships afloat, each carrying 19,100 twenty-foot equivalent unit containers. Half a dozen slightly larger vessels have been built since then. Chinese officials have stated that the vessels cost $136 million each to build.
In May 2017 the vessel made a visit to the Baltic Sea. On May 19, 2017, the city of Gdańsk celebrated the arrival of the CSCL Arctic Ocean, as it marked the first time a container ship of its size had visited the port. On May 22, 2017, she moored at JadeWeserPort, the container port of Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on the River Weser.
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 187,541 gross tons, CSCL Arctic Ocean is the 262nd 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 31 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 129th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.
CSCL Arctic Ocean was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 12th 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 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 399.6 m overall, CSCL Arctic Ocean is 178.0 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 59.0 m and a draft of 16.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9695169 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2013 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9695169, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 9×5 + 5×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 179 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MSC Zoe | 2015 | 192,237 |
| MSC Clara | 2015 | 192,237 |
| MSC Viviana | 2017 | 187,587 |
| CSCL Arctic Ocean (this ship) | 2015 | 187,541 |
| Merete Maersk | 2014 | 183,500 |
| Mogens Maersk | 2014 | 183,500 |
| Mette Maersk |
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from CSCL Arctic Ocean on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy kees torn, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| 2015 |
| 183,400 |