MSC Tessa

At 236,078 gross tons, MSC Tessa is the 29th 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 39 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 14th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Tessa is the 3rd 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 1 is larger by tonnage.

MSC Tessa was built in 2023, making it 3 years old. It is one of 144 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,666 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 368 vessels to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 40,437 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 399.0 m overall, MSC Tessa is 177.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 61.3 m and a draft of 17.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9930038 this registry holds 5 other vessels, whose median build year is 2023 and which range from 2023 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2023.

Its IMO number, 9930038, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 3×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.