MSC Branka

At 91,883 gross tons, MSC Branka is the 4,359th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 703rd by tonnage — larger than 81% 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.

MSC Branka was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 233rd 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.

At 299.9 m overall, MSC Branka is 78.3 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9720495 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2013 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9720495, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.