Apollonia

At 17,697 gross tons, Apollonia is the 28,387th 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 3.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,341st by tonnage — larger than 18% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Apollonia is the 1,476th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 327 bulk carriers flying the Malta flag, of which 265 are larger by tonnage.

Apollonia was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 552nd 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 169.0 m overall, Apollonia is 21.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9224867 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1970 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9224867, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.