P&O Nedlloyd Mercator

At 66,526 gross tons, P&O Nedlloyd Mercator is the 6,829th 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 1,005th by tonnage — larger than 73% 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.

P&O Nedlloyd Mercator was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 131st 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 229 vessels to Meyer Wismar, with a median tonnage of 16,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 278.0 m overall, P&O Nedlloyd Mercator is 56.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9189495 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1998 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.

Its IMO number, 9189495, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 9×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.