Akkaz

At 5,487 gross tons, Akkaz is the 43,132nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 24,676th by tonnage — larger than 50% 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.

Kuwait is the country of registry for 86 vessels in this directory, of which Akkaz is the 42nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (62 ships), and the median vessel measures 5,487 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kuwait.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kuwait flag, of which 34 are larger by tonnage.

Akkaz 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 1,169th 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.

At 117.0 m overall, Akkaz is 2.0 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 9411408 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.

Its IMO number, 9411408, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 108 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.