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Container ship

Four Star

IMO 9280835MMSI 428010000Call sign T8A3158PalauBuilt 2004

Operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd#10 by capacity

Photo: Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA · CC BY 2.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#9,188

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest container ship

#1,233

of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

IMO number: 9280835
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 428010000
Call sign: T8A3158
Flag state: Palau

In context

How Four Star compares

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 53,453 gross tons, Four Star is the 9,188th 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 8.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,233rd by tonnage — larger than 67% 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.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Four Star is the 58th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 container ships flying the Palau flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Four Star was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 265th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 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 294.0 m overall, Four Star is 72.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 13.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9280835 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9280835, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.