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Largest in this registry
#9,009
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,181
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
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
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 54,626 gross tons, Zim Haifa is the 9,009th 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 9.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,181st by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.
Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Zim Haifa is the 56th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 container ships flying the Palau flag, of which none is larger than Zim Haifa.
Zim Haifa 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 250th 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 587 vessels to HD Hyundai Samho, with a median tonnage of 81,380 GT, delivered between 1995 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 294.0 m overall, Zim Haifa is 72.4 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 9288904 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
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
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.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9288904, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 174 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MSC Fabienne | 2004 | 54,774 |
| MSC Anya | 2005 | 54,771 |
| FOS Express | 2008 | 54,675 |
| Zim Haifa (this ship) | 2004 | 54,626 |
| Fan Ya Tian Jin | 2005 | 54,605 |
| MSC Bremen | 2007 | 54,605 |
| Beijing Bridge | 2005 | 54,519 |
Maran Triton
2003 · 160,889 GT · Greece