Elbsun

At 9,983 gross tons, Elbsun is the 35,789th 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 3,025th by tonnage — larger than 18% 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.

Madeira is the country of registry for 295 vessels in this directory, of which Elbsun is the 185th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (147 ships), and the median vessel measures 17,068 GT. Browse every ship flagged Madeira.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 75 container ships flying the Madeira flag, of which 48 are larger by tonnage.

Elbsun 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 1,704th 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 137 vessels to Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 7,464 GT, delivered between 1984 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 140.7 m overall, Elbsun is 80.9 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 23.2 m and a draft of 7.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9429261 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2007 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9429261, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 2×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.