Danum 172

At 13,448 gross tons, Danum 172 is the 32,146th 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,823rd by tonnage — larger than 24% 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.

Malaysia is the country of registry for 706 vessels in this directory, of which Danum 172 is the 111th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (400 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,708 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malaysia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 container ships flying the Malaysia flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Danum 172 was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 536th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 159.0 m overall, Danum 172 is 62.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9151424 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9151424, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.