Ever Uranus

At 69,246 gross tons, Ever Uranus is the 6,634th 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 977th by tonnage — larger than 74% 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.

Ever Uranus was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 86th 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.

The registry attributes 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 285.0 m overall, Ever Uranus is 63.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9168855 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9168855, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 8×4 + 8×3 + 5×2 = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.