At 61,870 gross tons, MSC Barcelona is the 7,683rd 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,120th by tonnage — larger than 70% 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.
Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Barcelona is the 1,067th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 172 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Barcelona was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 476th 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 120 vessels to Mangalia Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 44,133 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 270.0 m overall, MSC Barcelona is 48.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 13.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9480186 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2007 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9480186, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 8×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 146 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
