Bonga

At 174,662 gross tons, Bonga is the 303rd 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 29 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 93rd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Nigeria is the country of registry for 355 vessels in this directory, of which Bonga is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,530 GT. Browse every ship flagged Nigeria.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 233 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Nigeria flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Bonga was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 2nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 287.0 m overall, Bonga is 172.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9222962 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9222962, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.