Berge Heng Shan

At 116,760 gross tons, Berge Heng Shan is the 2,279th 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 114th 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.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Berge Heng Shan is the 31st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 39 bulk carriers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Berge Heng Shan was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 80th 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 306.0 m overall, Berge Heng Shan is 116.0 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 9675949 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2010 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9675949, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 189 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.