MSC Pioneer

At 17,618 gross tons, MSC Pioneer is the 28,448th 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 2.9 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 15,936th by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.

Gibraltar is the country of registry for 202 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Pioneer is the 38th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (109 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,721 GT. Browse every ship flagged Gibraltar.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 109 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Gibraltar flag, of which 20 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Pioneer was built in 1963, making it 63 years old. It is one of 270 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,002 GT; within it this ship is the 7th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 201.0 m overall, MSC Pioneer is 86.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7714337 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1978 and which range from 1954 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1963.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.