Largest in this registry
#1,482
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#256
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#13
of 27 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
- 9857169
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 255806335
- Call sign
- CQEB4
- Flag state
- Portugal
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How MSC Aries 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 149,525 gross tons, MSC Aries is the 1,482nd 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 256th by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.
Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Aries is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 43 container ships flying the Portugal flag, of which none is larger than MSC Aries.
MSC Aries was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 61st 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 1,092 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 366.0 m overall, MSC Aries is 144.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 51.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9857169 this registry holds 35 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
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.
- 2024hijacking
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.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company
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.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
