Bahith

At 679 gross tons, Bahith is the 70,404th 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 8.8 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 39,473rd by tonnage — larger than 21% 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.

Kuwait is the country of registry for 86 vessels in this directory, of which Bahith is the 60th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (62 ships), and the median vessel measures 5,487 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kuwait.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kuwait flag, of which 44 are larger by tonnage.

Bahith was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 1,223rd 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 43.0 m overall, Bahith is 72.0 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 8219944 this registry holds 37 other vessels, whose median build year is 1984 and which range from 1982 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, 8219944, 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.