Al Farabi

At 26,464 gross tons, Al Farabi is the 22,000th 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 4.4 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 12,367th by tonnage — larger than 75% 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.

Saudi Arabia is the country of registry for 302 vessels in this directory, of which Al Farabi is the 93rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (207 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,877 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saudi Arabia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 207 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Saudi Arabia flag, of which 67 are larger by tonnage.

Al Farabi was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 159th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 178.0 m overall, Al Farabi is 63.0 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 8409678 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1984 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.