Best Wave

At 16,769 gross tons, Best Wave is the 29,348th 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 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,560th by tonnage — larger than 14% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Best Wave is the 1,368th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 671 bulk carriers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 604 are larger by tonnage.

Best Wave was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 383rd 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 570 vessels to Imabari Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 23,261 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 169.0 m overall, Best Wave is 21.0 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 9115080 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.