
Largest in this registry
#9,188
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,233
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
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
- 9280835
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 428010000
- Call sign
- T8A3158
- Flag state
- Palau
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
- Yard number
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2004
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd
- Operator on record
- Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 53,453
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 294.0 m
- Beam
- 32.2 m
- Draft
- 13.5 m
- Service speed
- —
- Deadweight
- 66,597 t
In context
How Four Star 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 53,453 gross tons, Four Star is the 9,188th 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 8.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,233rd by tonnage — larger than 67% 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 Four Star is the 58th 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 1 is larger by tonnage.
Four Star 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 265th 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 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 294.0 m overall, Four Star is 72.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 13.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9280835 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9280835, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Spinel | 1996 | 53,519 |
| Garnet | 1995 | 53,519 |
| «Herma P» | 2006 | 53,481 |
| Four Star (this ship) | 2004 | 53,453 |
| MSC Napoli | 1991 | 53,409 |
| Ever Racer | 1994 | 53,359 |
| Sun | 1993 | 53,359 |
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 2003keel laying
- 2004ship acquired
- 2004ship launching
- 2004ship completed
- 2019ship breaking
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
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.
Capricorn Star
2003 · 164,292 GT · Saudi Arabia
Baltic Sunrise
2005 · 163,465 GT · Marshall Islands
Baltic Glory
2005 · 163,465 GT · Marshall Islands

Mediterranean Glory
2004 · 161,175 GT
Starlight Venture
2004 · 161,045 GT · Hong Kong
Ardenne Venture
2004 · 161,045 GT · Panama
Marina
2003 · 160,930 GT · Zanzibar Islands
Front Energy
2004 · 156,873 GT · Marshall Islands
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd
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.
PhotographBy Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA, reused under CC BY 2.0.

