Xin Xia Men

At 66,433 gross tons, Xin Xia Men 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 Xia Men 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 Xia Men was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 158th 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.

At 279.0 m overall, Xin Xia Men 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 9270476 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9270476, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.