Bo Hai Cui Zhu

At 34,222 gross tons, Bo Hai Cui Zhu is the 16,782nd 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 5.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 79th by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Bo Hai Cui Zhu is the 569th 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 29 ro-ros flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which none is larger than Bo Hai Cui Zhu.

Bo Hai Cui Zhu was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 916th 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 178.0 m overall, Bo Hai Cui Zhu is 53.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9584803 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2009 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9584803, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 173 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.