At 3,850 gross tons, MS «Samskip Commander» is the 48,464th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 3,579th by tonnage — larger than 3% 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.
Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which MS «Samskip Commander» is the 102nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 container ships flying the Barbados flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MS «Samskip Commander» was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 816th 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 68 vessels to ENVC Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 3,798 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 100.6 m overall, MS «Samskip Commander» is 121.0 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 5.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9143829 this registry holds 81 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.
Its IMO number, 9143829, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 3×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
