Largest in this registry
#29,858
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#2,653
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
- 8908181
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 413377840
- Call sign
- Flag state
- People's Republic of China
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How Zhong Gu Tai Shan 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 16,236 gross tons, Zhong Gu Tai Shan is the 29,858th 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,653rd by tonnage — larger than 28% 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 Zhong Gu Tai Shan is the 1,405th 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 98 are larger by tonnage.
Zhong Gu Tai Shan was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 245th 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 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 164.0 m overall, Zhong Gu Tai Shan is 57.6 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 8908181 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Schichau Seebeckwerft
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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