Largest in this registry
#14,909
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#8,171
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#79
of 114 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9123154
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- 3EBW3
- Flag state
- Panama
- Port of registry
- Panama City
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How MSC Korea compares
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 37,518 gross tons, MSC Korea is the 14,909th 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 6.3 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 8,171st by tonnage — larger than 84% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Korea is the 2,437th 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 5,698 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Panama flag, of which 1,286 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Korea was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 201st 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 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 242.8 m overall, MSC Korea is 127.8 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record and a draft of 12.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9123154 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Samsung Heavy Industries
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
Other ships operated by MSC Shipmanagement
Provenance
Where this page comes from
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Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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