At 93,750 gross tons, Sofia Express is the 3,859th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 651st by tonnage — larger than 82% 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 Sofia Express is the 31st 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 27 are larger by tonnage.
Sofia Express was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 174th 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 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 335.1 m overall, Sofia Express is 113.5 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 14.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9450404 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.
Its IMO number, 9450404, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 5×5 + 0×4 + 4×3 + 0×2 = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
