At 23,930 gross tons, «AAL Shanghai» is the 23,775th 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 4.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 128th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which «AAL Shanghai» is the 455th 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 73 general cargos flying the Cyprus flag, of which none is larger than «AAL Shanghai».
«AAL Shanghai» was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,301st 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.
At 193.8 m overall, «AAL Shanghai» is 92.8 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record and a draft of 11.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9498377 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.
Its IMO number, 9498377, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 9×5 + 8×4 + 3×3 + 7×2 = 187 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
