
Container ship
CMA CGM Vasco de Gama
Operated by CMA CGM#3 by capacity
Photo: hummelhummel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#283
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#141
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 47 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About CMA CGM Vasco de Gama
CMA CGM Vasco de Gama is an Explorer-class container ship built for CMA CGM. It is named after Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama.
CMA CGM had originally planned to name the ship after Benjamin Franklin.
The ship was delivered in July 2015, it is among the world's largest containerships, at 17,859 TEU.
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
- 9706889
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 215173000
- Call sign
- 2INN8
- Flag state
- Malta
- Port of registry
- Valletta
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
- Yard number
- H6002
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2015
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- CMA CGM
- Operator on record
- CMA CGM
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 179,922
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 399.2 m
- Beam
- 54.0 m
- Draft
- 16.0 m
- Service speed
- 22.9 kn
- Container capacity
- 17,859 TEU
- Deadweight
- 184,700 t
In context
How CMA CGM Vasco de Gama 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 179,922 gross tons, CMA CGM Vasco de Gama is the 283rd 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 30 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 141st by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which CMA CGM Vasco de Gama is the 12th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 154 container ships flying the Malta flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
CMA CGM Vasco de Gama was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 19th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 2 vessels to Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China, with a median tonnage of 179,075 GT, delivered between 2015 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 399.2 m overall, CMA CGM Vasco de Gama is 177.6 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 54.0 m and a draft of 16.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9706889 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 1959 to 2023. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9706889, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Maren Maersk | 2014 | 182,000 |
| Mathilde Maersk | 2015 | 182,000 |
| Marchen Maersk | 2015 | 182,000 |
| CMA CGM Vasco de Gama (this ship) | 2015 | 179,922 |
| CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin | 2015 | 178,228 |
| CMA CGM Zheng He | 2015 | 178,228 |
| MSC London | 2014 | 176,490 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China
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.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by CMA CGM
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from CMA CGM Vasco de Gama on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy hummelhummel, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.




