MSC Darwin VI

At 66,278 gross tons, MSC Darwin VI is the 6,893rd 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 3,690th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

MSC Darwin VI was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 98th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 256 vessels to HJ Shipbuilding & Construction, with a median tonnage of 50,243 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 278.8 m overall, MSC Darwin VI is 163.8 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9200689 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1998 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9200689, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 8×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.