At 210,000 gross tons, MSC Gülsün is the 120th 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 35 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 82nd by tonnage — larger than 98% 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 Gülsün is the 33rd 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 27 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Gülsün was built in 2019, making it 7 years old. It is one of 1,261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 29,000 GT; within it this ship is the 14th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 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.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9839430 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2017 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2019.
Its IMO number, 9839430, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 180 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
