Astro Spica

At 1,330 gross tons, Astro Spica is the 63,001st 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 4.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 912th by tonnage — larger than 4% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Astro Spica is the 2,543rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 14 multi-purposes flying the Singapore flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Astro Spica 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 2,384th 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 58.0 m overall, Astro Spica is 32.0 m shorter than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9636620 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9636620, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 160 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.