Highland Chief

At 18,723 gross tons, Highland Chief is the 27,472nd 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 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,404th by tonnage — larger than 35% 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Highland Chief is the 1,784th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 186 container ships flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 147 are larger by tonnage.

Highland Chief was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 1,062nd 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.

At 175.0 m overall, Highland Chief is 46.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9689940 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2013 to 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9689940, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 210 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.