At 35,881 gross tons, «Louis S» is the 15,840th 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 6.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,789th by tonnage — larger than 52% 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.
Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which «Louis S» is the 8th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 93 container ships flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
«Louis S» was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 333rd 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 309 vessels to Szczecin Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 16,639 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 220.0 m overall, «Louis S» is 1.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9219381 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9219381, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 3×3 + 8×2 = 141 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
