«Frankfurt Express»

At 57,540 gross tons, «Frankfurt Express» is the 8,507th 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 9.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,140th by tonnage — larger than 69% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which «Frankfurt Express» is the 1,209th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 133 are larger by tonnage.

«Frankfurt Express» was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 39th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 288.0 m overall, «Frankfurt Express» is 66.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 13.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7909592 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1978 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 7909592, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 172 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.