Maersk Karun

At 45,169 gross tons, Maersk Karun is the 10,948th 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 7.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,479th by tonnage — larger than 60% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Maersk Karun is the 1,646th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 181 are larger by tonnage.

Maersk Karun was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 380th 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 255.0 m overall, Maersk Karun is 33.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9624299 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 1970 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9624299, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.