BW Lotus

At 166,414 gross tons, BW Lotus is the 378th 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 28 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 140th 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which BW Lotus is the 61st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 29 are larger by tonnage.

BW Lotus was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 10th 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.

At 332.0 m overall, BW Lotus is 217.0 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 9385037 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9385037, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.