Belanak Natuna

At 132,779 gross tons, Belanak Natuna is the 1,947th 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 22 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 46th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Indonesia is the country of registry for 2,700 vessels in this directory, of which Belanak Natuna is the 4th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,484 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,078 GT. Browse every ship flagged Indonesia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 70 tankers flying the Indonesia flag, of which none is larger than Belanak Natuna.

Belanak Natuna was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 30th 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 285.0 m overall, Belanak Natuna is 146.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8765216 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1972 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 8765216, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 156 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.