At 51,931 gross tons, MSC Venezuela is the 9,450th 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 8.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,293rd by tonnage — larger than 65% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Venezuela is the 164th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 66 container ships flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 42 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Venezuela was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 132nd 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 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 293.5 m overall, MSC Venezuela is 71.9 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 13.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9103697 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9103697, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
