Ever Given

At 219,079 gross tons, Ever Given is the 81st 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 37 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 51st by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Ever Given is the 24th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

Ever Given 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 3rd 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 570 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 23,261 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 399.9 m overall, Ever Given is 178.3 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 58.8 m and a draft of 15.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9811000 this registry holds 38 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 1987 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.

Its IMO number, 9811000, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 0×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.