Brotas

At 53,114 gross tons, Brotas is the 9,239th 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 8.9 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 5,058th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.

Tanzania is the country of registry for 337 vessels in this directory, of which Brotas is the 7th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (209 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,457 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tanzania.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 209 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Tanzania flag, of which none is larger than Brotas.

Brotas was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 35th 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.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8124022 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1983 and which range from 1979 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.

Its IMO number, 8124022, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 = 92 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.