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Container ship
Operated by Hapag-Lloyd#5 by capacity
Photo: Le.Ti.Gun · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#3,859
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#651
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#10
of 25 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Osaka Express (built in 2007) is a container ship operated by the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. This vessel has a capacity of 8749 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and 103,800 tonnes deadweight (DWT). It can achieve a speed of 25 kn. It belongs to the Colombo Express class of ships.
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 93,750 gross tons, Osaka Express is the 3,859th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 651st by tonnage — larger than 82% 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 Osaka Express is the 502nd 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 73 are larger by tonnage.
Osaka Express was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 95th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 335.5 m overall, Osaka Express is 113.9 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 43.0 m and a draft of 14.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9320697 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9320697, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 9×2 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MSC Antalya | 2013 | 94,000 |
| Chicago Express | 2006 | 93,811 |
| Kuala Lumpur Express | 2007 | 93,811 |
| Osaka Express (this ship) | 2007 | 93,750 |
| Maersk Sarat | 2015 | 93,702 |
| Cochrane | 2015 | 93,685 |
| Cisnes |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyoto Express | 9295256 | Liberia | 2005 | 93,750 |
| Colombo Express | 9295244 | Liberia | 2005 | 93,750 |
| Chicago Express | 9295268 | Germany | 2006 | 93,811 |
| Tsingtao Express | 9320702 | Liberia | 2007 | 93,750 |
| Hanover Express | 9343716 | Liberia | 2007 | 93,750 |
| Kuala Lumpur Express | 9343730 | — | 2007 | 93,811 |
| Bremen Express | 9343728 | Liberia | 2008 | 93,750 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Osaka Express on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Le.Ti.Gun, reused under Public domain.
| 2015 |
| 93,685 |