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Largest in this registry
#1,390
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#229
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#31
of 103 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MSC Daniela is the lead ship of her class of container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company that at 366 metres (1,200 ft 9 in) is one of the largest container ships of the world, with a twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) cargo capacity of 14,000 containers. The building of MSC Daniela was started on 1 July 2006 and finished at the end of 2008; the ship was subsequently crowned as the largest according to cargo capacity. The shipbuilder was Samsung Heavy Industries in Geoje, South Korea.
However, MSC Daniela is now neither the longest container ship in the world, nor does it have the largest tonnage.
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 151,559 gross tons, MSC Daniela is the 1,390th 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 229th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Daniela is the 212th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 42 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Daniela was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 46th 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 366.0 m overall, MSC Daniela is 144.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 51.0 m and a draft of 15.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9399002 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.
Its IMO number, 9399002, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 9×5 + 9×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| APL Vanda | 2013 | 151,963 |
| «MOL Quartz» | 2013 | 151,963 |
| MOL Quintet | 2014 | 151,963 |
| MSC Daniela (this ship) | 2008 | 151,559 |
| YM Wisdom | 2019 | 151,451 |
| APL Sentosa | 2014 | 151,015 |
| APL Merlion |
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.
Umm Slal
2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Mayeda
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Mafyar
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Mekaines
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Mozah
2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Shagra
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Bu Samra
2008 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Al Dafna
2009 · 163,922 GT · Marshall Islands
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MSC Daniela on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Alf van Beem, reused under CC0.
| 2014 |
| 151,015 |