Berge Galdhopiggen

At 25,569 gross tons, Berge Galdhopiggen is the 22,664th 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 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,208th by tonnage — larger than 35% 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.

Isle of Man is the country of registry for 211 vessels in this directory, of which Berge Galdhopiggen is the 77th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (152 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,311 GT. Browse every ship flagged Isle of Man.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 bulk carriers flying the Isle of Man flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.

Berge Galdhopiggen was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 719th 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 179.8 m overall, Berge Galdhopiggen is 10.2 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9753284 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.

Its IMO number, 9753284, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.