Bw Birch

At 47,386 gross tons, Bw Birch is the 10,447th 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 7.9 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 5,678th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Bw Birch is the 72nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 514 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the India flag, of which 42 are larger by tonnage.

Bw Birch was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 343rd 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.

At 225.4 m overall, Bw Birch is 110.4 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 9320740 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9320740, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.