BBC Xingang

At 8,255 gross tons, BBC Xingang is the 38,470th 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 168th by tonnage — larger than 82% 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.

Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which BBC Xingang is the 254th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 119 multi-purposes flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 24 are larger by tonnage.

BBC Xingang was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 1,299th 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 125.0 m overall, BBC Xingang is 35.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 22.0 m and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9508483 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9508483, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.