Artevelde

At 5,005 gross tons, Artevelde is the 44,396th 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 1.2 times smaller than 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 25,383rd by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.

Belgium is the country of registry for 258 vessels in this directory, of which Artevelde is the 85th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,462 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belgium.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 191 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Belgium flag, of which 58 are larger by tonnage.

Artevelde was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,801st 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.

The registry attributes 85 vessels to Royal IHC, with a median tonnage of 9,125 GT, delivered between 1947 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 97.5 m overall, Artevelde is 17.5 m shorter 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 9501954 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2008 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9501954, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.