Atacama

At 24,960 gross tons, Atacama is the 23,105th 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 4.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 13th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Atacama is the 1,163rd 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 18 multi-purposes flying the Malta flag, of which none is larger than Atacama.

Atacama was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 614th 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 188.3 m overall, Atacama is 98.3 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 27.7 m and a draft of 10.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9262572 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9262572, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.