Container ship
Maersk Honam
Operator on record: Maersk Line
Largest in this registry
#1,276
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#190
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
About Maersk Honam
Maersk Honam was a container ship operated by Maersk Line. The vessel caught fire on 6 March 2018 while sailing in the Arabian Sea. Five members of the crew of 27 were killed, including one rescued crew member who died later from injuries.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9784271
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- 9V5395
- Flag state
- Singapore
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How Maersk Honam compares
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 153,744 gross tons, Maersk Honam is the 1,276th 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 26 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 190th by tonnage — larger than 95% 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.
Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Maersk Honam is the 61st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 288 container ships flying the Singapore flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.
Maersk Honam was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 70th 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 353.0 m overall, Maersk Honam is 131.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 53.5 m and a draft of 15.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9784271 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
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
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Maersk Honam on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.