Belgica

At 25,608 gross tons, Belgica is the 22,643rd 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 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,161st by tonnage — larger than 42% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Belgica was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 347th 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 31 vessels to Warnowwerft Warnemünde, with a median tonnage of 16,073 GT, delivered between 1951 and 1999. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 208.1 m overall, Belgica is 13.5 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9149304 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9149304, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 9×4 + 3×3 + 0×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.