At 110,499 gross tons, Höegh Esperanza is the 2,669th 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 18 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 1,435th by tonnage — larger than 97% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Höegh Esperanza is the 45th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 36 are larger by tonnage.
Höegh Esperanza was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 168th 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 1,092 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, Höegh Esperanza is 179.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 46.0 m and a draft of 12.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9780354 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2014 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 9780354, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 8×5 + 0×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
