Bing He 178

At 1,303 gross tons, Bing He 178 is the 63,273rd 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 4.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 4,469th by tonnage — larger than 19% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Fiji is the country of registry for 32 vessels in this directory, of which Bing He 178 is the 10th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (19 ships), and the median vessel measures 672 GT. Browse every ship flagged Fiji.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 general cargos flying the Fiji flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Bing He 178 was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 451st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 75.0 m overall, Bing He 178 is 26.0 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8713354 this registry holds 37 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8713354, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.