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Container ship
Operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company#1 by capacity
Photo: Robert Kaufmann · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#9,705
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,321
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#20
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MSC Carouge is a container ship built in 2007 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. She is the third ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered.
The 54,549 DWT ship has a container capacity of 4,860 TEU's.
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 50,963 gross tons, MSC Carouge is the 9,705th 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,321st by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.
Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Carouge is the 40th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 43 container ships flying the Portugal flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Carouge was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 317th 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 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 275.0 m overall, MSC Carouge is 53.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.0 m and a draft of 13.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9320441 this registry holds 75 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9320441, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Hanjin Marseilles | 1993 | 51,299 |
| Hanjin Malta | 1993 | 51,299 |
| Maersk Rubicon | 2013 | 51,032 |
| MSC Carouge (this ship) | 2007 | 50,963 |
| Maersk Cairo | 2012 | 50,869 |
| Safmarine Chachai | 2012 | 50,869 |
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 Carouge on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Robert Kaufmann, reused under Public domain.
| 2012 |
| 50,869 |