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Container ship

MSC Baltic III

IMO 9241475MadeiraBuilt 2003

Operated by Reederei Nord

Photo: Farid mernissi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#22,804

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest container ship

#2,180

of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

of 10 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 9241475
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign
Flag state: Madeira
Port of registry

In context

How MSC Baltic III compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

At 25,407 gross tons, MSC Baltic III is the 22,804th 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 4.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,180th by tonnage — larger than 41% 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.

Madeira is the country of registry for 295 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Baltic III is the 108th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (147 ships), and the median vessel measures 17,068 GT. Browse every ship flagged Madeira.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 75 container ships flying the Madeira flag, of which 19 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Baltic III was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 503rd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 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 207.3 m overall, MSC Baltic III is 14.3 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 11.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9241475 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9241475, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 4×3 + 7×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.