Largest in this registry
#27,394
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#2,393
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9230206
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 563250000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Singapore
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How Wan Hai 261 compares
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 18,872 gross tons, Wan Hai 261 is the 27,394th 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 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,393rd by tonnage — larger than 35% 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.
Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Wan Hai 261 is the 1,466th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 288 container ships flying the Singapore flag, of which 218 are larger by tonnage.
Wan Hai 261 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 541st 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 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 198.0 m overall, Wan Hai 261 is 23.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9230206 this registry holds 57 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Shin Kurushima Dockyard
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
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