BW Canola

At 43,068 gross tons, BW Canola is the 12,178th 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 7.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,584th by tonnage — larger than 76% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Isle of Man is the country of registry for 211 vessels in this directory, of which BW Canola is the 49th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (152 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,311 GT. Browse every ship flagged Isle of Man.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 bulk carriers flying the Isle of Man flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

BW Canola was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 441st 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.

The registry attributes 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 225.0 m overall, BW Canola is 35.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9687124 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2013 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9687124, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 8×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 174 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.