MSC Shannon

At 37,071 gross tons, MSC Shannon is the 15,034th 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 6.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,740th by tonnage — larger than 53% 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 Shannon is the 2,458th 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 211 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Shannon was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 146th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 129 vessels to Bremer Vulkan, with a median tonnage of 18,037 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 237.0 m overall, MSC Shannon is 15.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8913423 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8913423, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 4×3 + 2×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.