NYK Falcon

At 146,287 gross tons, NYK Falcon is the 1,557th 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 24 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 277th 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which NYK Falcon is the 42nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 25 container ships flying the Japan flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

NYK Falcon was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 82nd 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.

The registry attributes 253 vessels to Japan Marine United Corporation, with a median tonnage of 43,291 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 364.1 m overall, NYK Falcon is 142.5 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 9741425 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.

Its IMO number, 9741425, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 4×3 + 2×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.