At 193,489 gross tons, MSC Rifaya is the 237th 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 116th 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 Rifaya is the 26th 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 17 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Rifaya was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 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 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 399.9 m overall, MSC Rifaya is 178.3 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 9767388 this registry holds 27 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2016 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.
Its IMO number, 9767388, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 6×5 + 7×4 + 3×3 + 8×2 = 188 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
