Largest in this registry
#217
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#99
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
- 9783461
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- VRRE2
- Flag state
- Hong Kong
- Port of registry
- Hong Kong
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How COSCO Shipping Virgo 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 194,864 gross tons, COSCO Shipping Virgo is the 217th 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 33 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 99th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which COSCO Shipping Virgo is the 52nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 186 container ships flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 16 are larger by tonnage.
COSCO Shipping Virgo was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 42nd 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 270 vessels to Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 94,385 GT, delivered between 2003 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 399.8 m overall, COSCO Shipping Virgo is 178.2 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 16.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9783461 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding
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.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
