Glasgow Express

At 46,009 gross tons, Glasgow Express is the 10,795th 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 7.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,470th by tonnage — larger than 60% 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.

Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which Glasgow Express is the 97th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 9 container ships flying the Bermuda flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Glasgow Express was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 216th 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 281.0 m overall, Glasgow Express is 59.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 12.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9232589 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9232589, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 8×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.