Largest in this registry
#2,532
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest container ship
#447
of 3,704 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#28
of 42 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
- 9739666
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- VRPJ6
- Flag state
- People's Republic of China
- Port of registry
- Hong Kong
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Container ship
In context
How Seaspan Benefactor 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 113,042 gross tons, Seaspan Benefactor is the 2,532nd 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 447th by tonnage — larger than 88% 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.
People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Seaspan Benefactor is the 26th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 129 container ships flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Seaspan Benefactor was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 108th 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 301 vessels to Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 44,127 GT, delivered between 2008 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 337.0 m overall, Seaspan Benefactor is 115.4 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 9739666 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding
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 Ocean Network Express
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.
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