MSC Dhantia

At 9,978 gross tons, MSC Dhantia is the 35,852nd 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 1.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 3,055th by tonnage — larger than 18% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Dhantia is the 4,019th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 462 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Dhantia 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 561st 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.

At 149.0 m overall, MSC Dhantia is 72.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9160982 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9160982, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.