African Addax

At 43,432 gross tons, African Addax is the 11,954th 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 7.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 6,623rd by tonnage — larger than 87% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which African Addax is the 403rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Greece flag, of which 295 are larger by tonnage.

African Addax was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 182nd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 243.0 m overall, African Addax is 128.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7376355 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1974 and which range from 1973 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.

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