At 7,545 gross tons, WMS Groningen is the 39,344th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 3,295th by tonnage — larger than 11% 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.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which WMS Groningen is the 969th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 95 container ships flying the Cyprus flag, of which 77 are larger by tonnage.
WMS Groningen was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 1,087th 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 137 vessels to Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 7,464 GT, delivered between 1984 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 129.0 m overall, WMS Groningen is 92.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 20.6 m and a draft of 7.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9339038 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2003 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9339038, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
