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Largest in this registry
#31,608
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#2,794
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#8
of 8 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Tygra (formerly MV Maersk Alabama) is a container ship currently operated by the Waterman Steamship Corporation and owned by Element Shipmanagement SA of Piraeus, Greece. She was previously owned by the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and operated by Maersk Line and Maersk Line Limited.
She had a light-blue hull and a beige superstructure like all Maersk vessels, regardless of their flag of registry. She was hijacked by pirates near Somalia in 2009 and her crew held hostage. Four additional unsuccessful hijacking attempts were made in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 14,120 gross tons, MV Tygra is the 31,608th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,794th by tonnage — larger than 25% 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.
Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory, of which MV Tygra is the 268th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 101 container ships flying the Denmark flag, of which 94 are larger by tonnage.
MV Tygra was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 524th 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 270 vessels to CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, with a median tonnage of 43,605 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 155.0 m overall, MV Tygra is 66.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 25.0 m and a draft of 9.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9164263 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9164263, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| King Justus | 1995 | 14,241 |
| Jork Valiant | 2000 | 14,241 |
| Reestborg | 2013 | 14,141 |
| MV Tygra (this ship) | 1998 | 14,120 |
| Easline Yantai | 1997 | 14,089 |
| Easline Lianyungang | 1997 | 14,089 |
| Frederik |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Cape Mercury
1997 · 85,722 GT · Singapore
China Steel Investor
1997 · 82,112 GT · Taiwan
China Steel Developer
1998 · 82,112 GT · Taiwan
China Steel Trader
1997 · 82,112 GT · Taiwan
High Speed
1999 · 43,642 GT · Panama
Tex
1999 · 43,642 GT · Taiwan
Zhen Yang Nan Hai
1999 · 39,161 GT · People's Republic of China

Corviglia
1999 · 39,161 GT · Switzerland
Same fleet
Provenance
| 2005 |
| 14,072 |