Astrafederico

At 16,699 gross tons, Astrafederico is the 29,439th 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 2.8 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 16,456th by tonnage — larger than 67% 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.

Argentina is the country of registry for 296 vessels in this directory, of which Astrafederico is the 14th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (222 ships), and the median vessel measures 628 GT. Browse every ship flagged Argentina.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 222 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Argentina flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Astrafederico was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 284th 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, Astrafederico 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 7357294 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1974 to 1982. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.