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Largest in this registry
#2,822
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#496
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#16
of 61 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MSC Bruxelles is one of the largest container ships in the world. She has a maximum capacity of 9,200 TEU . The ship is owned by Santa Loretta Shipping Corp.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 107,849 gross tons, MSC Bruxelles is the 2,822nd 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 18 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 496th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Bruxelles is the 26th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 85 container ships flying the Germany flag, of which 22 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Bruxelles was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 38th 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 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 337.0 m overall, MSC Bruxelles is 115.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 46.0 m and a draft of 15.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9290567 this registry holds 86 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9290567, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MSC Emma | 2011 | 108,000 |
| Tianjin | 2010 | 107,940 |
| CMA CGM Fidelio | 2006 | 107,898 |
| MSC Bruxelles (this ship) | 2005 | 107,849 |
| CMA CGM Medea | 2006 | 107,711 |
| CMA CGM Norma | 2006 | 107,711 |
| MSC Madeleine |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MSC Bruxelles on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Port of Virginia from Norfolk, Virginia, USA, reused under CC BY 2.0.
| 2006 |
| 107,551 |