Bess

At 58,750 gross tons, Bess is the 8,265th 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 9.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 145th by tonnage — larger than 69% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Bess is the 1,164th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 132 car carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 38 are larger by tonnage.

Bess was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 498th 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.

The registry attributes 185 vessels to Shinkurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 30,767 GT, delivered between 1981 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Bess is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 9.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9531715 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9531715, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 3×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 1×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.