Auto Energy

At 42,424 gross tons, Auto Energy is the 12,572nd 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 7.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 291st by tonnage — larger than 37% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Auto Energy was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 486th 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 181.0 m overall, Auto Energy is 12.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9736377 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2013 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9736377, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 7×2 = 167 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.