Largest in this registry
#6,851
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,018
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
- 9234331
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 413050000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- People's Republic of China
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How Xin Da Lian 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 66,433 gross tons, Xin Da Lian is the 6,851st 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 1,018th by tonnage — larger than 72% 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.
People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Xin Da Lian is the 62nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 129 container ships flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 21 are larger by tonnage.
Xin Da Lian was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 143rd 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 274 vessels to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company, with a median tonnage of 41,482 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 279.0 m overall, Xin Da Lian is 57.4 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 9234331 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company
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
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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