Lars Maersk

At 50,657 gross tons, Lars Maersk is the 9,847th 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,368th by tonnage — larger than 63% 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.

Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory, of which Lars Maersk is the 102nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 101 container ships flying the Denmark flag, of which 72 are larger by tonnage.

Lars Maersk was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 272nd 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 190 vessels to Odense Steel Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 52,186 GT, delivered between 1924 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 266.8 m overall, Lars Maersk is 45.2 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 12.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9294379 this registry holds 83 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9294379, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 4×4 + 3×3 + 7×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.