At 176,490 gross tons, MSC London is the 289th 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 29 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 144th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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 London is the 42nd 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 34 are larger by tonnage.
MSC London was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 18th 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 118 vessels to STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 32,968 GT, delivered between 2002 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 399.0 m overall, MSC London is 177.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 15.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9606302 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.
Its IMO number, 9606302, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 0×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
