Sun

At 53,359 gross tons, Sun is the 9,204th 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 8.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,241st by tonnage — larger than 66% 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.

Philippines is the country of registry for 943 vessels in this directory, of which Sun is the 8th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (664 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,213 GT. Browse every ship flagged Philippines.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 20 container ships flying the Philippines flag, of which none is larger than Sun.

Sun was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 102nd 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 213 vessels to Onomichi Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 28,520 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 294.0 m overall, Sun is 72.4 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 9002714 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.