MSC Reef

At 194,308 gross tons, MSC Reef is the 231st 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 32 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 111th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Reef is the 20th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Reef was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 6th 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 398.4 m overall, MSC Reef is 176.8 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 16.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9754965 this registry holds 26 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.