At 229,376 gross tons, Manila Express is the 61st 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 38 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 38th 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which Manila Express is the 1st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 85 container ships flying the Germany flag, of which none is larger than Manila Express.
Manila Express was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 6th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 400.0 m overall, Manila Express is 178.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 16.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9540120 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.
Its IMO number, 9540120, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
