Largest in this registry
#9,705
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#1,321
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#20
of 27 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About MSC Monterey
MSC Monterey is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. She is the fifth ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered.
The 54,549 DWT ship has a container capacity of 4,860 TEU's.
In December 2013, MSC Monterey, travelling from Antwerp, Belgium to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, was reported in danger 140 km south of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, a metre-long crack having been discovered in its hull, about eight metres above the waterline. Four passengers were evacuated by helicopter in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland and temporary repairs were effected in the more sheltered waters of St. Mary's Bay.
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
- 9349796
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 636092391
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Madeira
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
- Name recorded in
- hr
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
- Builder
- Mangalia Shipyard
- Yard number
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2007
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Mediterranean Shipping Company
- Operator on record
- Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 50,963
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 275.0 m
- Beam
- 32.0 m
- Draft
- 13.5 m
- Service speed
- —
- Deadweight
- 54,549 t
In context
How MSC Monterey 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 50,963 gross tons, MSC Monterey is the 9,705th 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 8.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,321st by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.
Madeira is the country of registry for 295 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Monterey is the 42nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (147 ships), and the median vessel measures 17,068 GT. Browse every ship flagged Madeira.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 75 container ships flying the Madeira flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
MSC Monterey was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 317th 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 120 vessels to Mangalia Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 44,133 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 275.0 m overall, MSC Monterey is 53.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 32.0 m and a draft of 13.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9349796 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.
Its IMO number, 9349796, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 4×5 + 9×4 + 7×3 + 9×2 = 176 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among container ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Hanjin Marseilles | 1993 | 51,299 |
| Hanjin Malta | 1993 | 51,299 |
| Maersk Rubicon | 2013 | 51,032 |
| MSC Monterey (this ship) | 2007 | 50,963 |
| Maersk Cairo | 2012 | 50,869 |
| Safmarine Chachai | 2012 | 50,869 |
| Maersk Chilka | 2012 | 50,869 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Mangalia Shipyard
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 summaryQuoted from MSC Monterey on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Wolfgang Fricke, reused under CC BY 3.0.