At 99,640 gross tons, Ever Leading is the 3,321st 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 17 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 536th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Ever Leading is the 65th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 66 container ships flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 21 are larger by tonnage.
Ever Leading was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 172nd 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 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 334.8 m overall, Ever Leading is 113.2 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9595462 this registry holds 75 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.
Its IMO number, 9595462, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 182 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
