Santa Cruz

At 43,209 gross tons, Santa Cruz is the 12,082nd 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 7.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,500th by tonnage — larger than 60% 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.

Santa Cruz was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 113th 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 253 vessels to Japan Marine United Corporation, with a median tonnage of 43,291 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 251.5 m overall, Santa Cruz is 29.9 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 8918825 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1989 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8918825, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.