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Largest in this registry
#8,325
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest car carrier
#153
of 464 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
In context
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 58,288 gross tons, Glovis Challenge is the 8,325th 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 9.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 153rd by tonnage — larger than 67% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.
South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Glovis Challenge is the 92nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 17 car carriers flying the South Korea flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
Glovis Challenge 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 447th 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 1,480 vessels to HD Hyundai Mipo, with a median tonnage of 29,375 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.0 m overall, Glovis Challenge is 5.1 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9590591 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9590591, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among car carriers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Town Highway | 2011 | 58,535 |
| Chesapeake Highway | 2010 | 58,535 |
| IMO 9673381 | 2014 | 58,531 |
| Glovis Challenge (this ship) | 2012 | 58,288 |
| Libra Leader | 1998 | 58,249 |
| Hojin | 1990 | 57,871 |
| Prominent Ace | 2004 | 57,789 |
C. Infinity
2012 · 160,705 GT · Panama