American Highway

At 49,212 gross tons, American Highway is the 10,083rd 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 8.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 236th by tonnage — larger than 49% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which American Highway is the 1,473rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 68 are larger by tonnage.

American Highway was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 211th 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 179.0 m overall, American Highway is 14.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9205976 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.

Its IMO number, 9205976, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.