MSC Istanbul

At 176,490 gross tons, MSC Istanbul is the 289th 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 29 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 144th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Istanbul is the 33rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 498 container ships flying the Liberia flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Istanbul was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 22nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 399.0 m overall, MSC Istanbul is 177.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9606326 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9606326, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 2×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.