MS Asterix

At 18,199 gross tons, MS Asterix is the 27,880th 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 3.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,457th by tonnage — larger than 34% 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.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which MS Asterix is the 62nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

MS Asterix was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 1,541st 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 229 vessels to Meyer Wismar, with a median tonnage of 16,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.5 m overall, MS Asterix is 39.1 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 25.2 m and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9348182 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9348182, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.