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Container ship
Operated by Hanjin Shipping
Photo: United States Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin J. Neff · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#7,047
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,091
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Hanjin Venezia, formerly named the Cosco Busan, is a 275 m (902 ft) container ship. On 7 November 2007, it collided with the protective fender of the Delta Tower of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy fog. The collision sliced open two of its fuel tanks and led to the Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco Bay. She was renamed the Hanjin Venezia after the accident.
The vessel was initially built in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries at Ulsan, South Korea. In December 2001, the vessel was placed under long-term charter to Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea and named Hanjin Cairo. The vessel called on various ports of Europe, Asia, and along the West Coast of the United States, specifically the Ports of Long Beach and Oakland, California.
In November 2006, the ship's owners renamed the vessel from the Hanjin Cairo to the Cosco Busan. After a 3-year absence from U.S. ports, the Cosco Busan called upon the Port of Long Beach on December 29, 2006. On October 24, 2007, the vessel was sold to Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong and was re-flagged and sailed under the national flag of Hong Kong. The Cosco Busan's new owners contracted with Fleet Management to supply an all-Chinese crew and to manage her technical operations on behalf of the owners. Despite named after Cosco, Cosco claimed that the ship has no relation to the company.
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 65,131 gross tons, Venezia is the 7,047th 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 1,091st by tonnage — larger than 70% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Venezia is the 547th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 186 container ships flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 93 are larger by tonnage.
Venezia was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 129th 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 274.7 m overall, Venezia is 53.1 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 40.0 m and a draft of 14.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9231743 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9231743, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 4×2 = 123 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Hanjin Rome | 1998 | 65,184 |
| Zhong Yuan Qing Dao | 1997 | 65,140 |
| Wanhe | 1997 | 65,140 |
| Venezia (this ship) | 2001 | 65,131 |
| Rio Barrow | 2001 | 65,059 |
| Hyundai Confidence | 2003 | 64,845 |
| «APL Korea» |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSC Dymphna | 9110391 | Panama | 1996 | 64,054 |
| Hyundai Freedom | 9112260 | — | 1996 | 64,054 |
| General | 9112284 | Comoros | 1996 | 64,054 |
| MSC Samantha | 9110377 | Panama | 1996 | 64,054 |
| Highness | 9128166 | — | 1996 | 64,054 |
| «Hyundai Fortune» | 9112272 | — | 1996 | 64,054 |
| SeaLand New York | 9196838 | Liberia | 2000 | 74,661 |
| YM Green | 9224491 | Taiwan | 2001 | 64,254 |
| «Hanjin Taipei» | 9231755 | — | 2002 | 65,131 |
| «Hanjin Gothenburg» | 9235103 | — | 2002 | 65,131 |
| Hanjin Helsinki | 9235098 | — | 2002 | 65,131 |
| MSC Marta | 9295385 | Panama | 2005 | 65,483 |
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Hanjin Venezia on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy United States Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin J. Neff, reused under Public domain.
| 1995 |
| 64,502 |