Bright Spark

At 7,949 gross tons, Bright Spark is the 38,780th 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 1.3 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 22,201st by tonnage — larger than 55% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Bright Spark is the 1,891st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,614 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Malta flag, of which 1,172 are larger by tonnage.

Bright Spark was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 323rd 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 76 vessels to Van der Giessen de Noord, with a median tonnage of 11,335 GT, delivered between 1944 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 129.8 m overall, Bright Spark is 14.8 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 18.9 m and a draft of 8.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8821814 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.