
Largest in this registry
#8,989
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,178
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#18
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
- 9279965
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- H3SF
- Flag state
- Panama
- Port of registry
- Panama City
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
- Builder
- HD Hyundai Samho
- Yard number
- S194
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2004
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- —
- Operator on record
- Mediterranean Shipping Company
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 54,774
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 294.0 m
- Beam
- —
- Draft
- 13.7 m
- Service speed
- —
In context
How MSC Fabienne 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 54,774 gross tons, MSC Fabienne is the 8,989th 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 9.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,178th by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Fabienne is the 1,289th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 143 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Fabienne 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 248th 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 587 vessels to HD Hyundai Samho, with a median tonnage of 81,380 GT, delivered between 1995 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 294.0 m overall, MSC Fabienne is 72.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 13.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9279965 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9279965, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 9×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 185 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IMO 9326794 | 2005 | 54,809 |
| CMA CGM Alcazar | 2007 | 54,778 |
| GSL Chateau d'If | 2007 | 54,778 |
| MSC Fabienne (this ship) | 2004 | 54,774 |
| MSC Anya | 2005 | 54,771 |
| FOS Express | 2008 | 54,675 |
| MSC Barbados | 2005 | 54,626 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at HD Hyundai Samho
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.
PhotographBy Wolfgang Fricke, reused under CC BY 3.0.



