MSC Ilona

At 75,590 gross tons, MSC Ilona is the 6,172nd 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 854th by tonnage — larger than 77% 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 MSC Ilona is the 51st 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 40 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Ilona was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 81st 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 1,090 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 300.0 m overall, MSC Ilona is 78.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9225641 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.