MSC Mee May

At 16,670 gross tons, MSC Mee May is the 29,468th 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 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,626th by tonnage — larger than 29% 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 Mee May is the 5,033rd 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 308 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Mee May was built in 1970, making it 56 years old. It is one of 336 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,669 GT; within it this ship is the 13th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 181.0 m overall, MSC Mee May is 40.6 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 7015274 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 1970 and which range from 1969 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.