Berge Athene

At 112,947 gross tons, Berge Athene is the 2,564th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 121st by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Berge Athene was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 7th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 314.0 m overall, Berge Athene is 124.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7404140 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975 and which range from 1973 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 7404140, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 100 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.