OOCL America

At 66,046 gross tons, OOCL America is the 6,919th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,059th by tonnage — larger than 71% 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.

OOCL America was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 76th 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 117 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery, with a median tonnage of 61,321 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 276.0 m overall, OOCL America is 54.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9102291 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9102291, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 9×2 = 101 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.