Melanesian Pride

At 10,357 gross tons, Melanesian Pride is the 35,285th 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,981st by tonnage — larger than 20% 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 Melanesian Pride is the 1,954th 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 163 are larger by tonnage.

Melanesian Pride was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 296th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 129 vessels to Tsuneishi Miho Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 1,017 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 158.0 m overall, Melanesian Pride is 63.6 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 8809189 this registry holds 20 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.