At 50,352 gross tons, MOL Elbe is the 9,911th 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 8.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,377th 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.
Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which MOL Elbe is the 941st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 129 container ships flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 40 are larger by tonnage.
MOL Elbe 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 84th 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 253 vessels to Japan Marine United Corporation, with a median tonnage of 43,291 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 292.1 m overall, MOL Elbe is 70.5 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 8912247 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.
Its IMO number, 8912247, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
