Al Fenci

At 494 gross tons, Al Fenci is the 74,035th 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 515th by tonnage — larger than 59% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

United Arab Emirates is the country of registry for 272 vessels in this directory, of which Al Fenci is the 174th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (169 ships), and the median vessel measures 686 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Arab Emirates.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 tugs flying the United Arab Emirates flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Al Fenci 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 2,529th 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 32.0 m overall, Al Fenci is within a metre of the 32.3 m median length for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9645308 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9645308, 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.