Baltic Spring

At 10,842 gross tons, Baltic Spring is the 34,781st 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 1.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 63rd by tonnage — larger than 85% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Baltic Spring is the 3,971st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 reefers flying the Liberia flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Baltic Spring was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 312th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 129 vessels to Bremer Vulkan, with a median tonnage of 18,037 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 156.0 m overall, Baltic Spring is 27.6 m longer than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record, with a beam of 23.0 m and a draft of 9.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8909070 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8909070, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 0×3 + 7×2 = 160 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.