Cape Century

At 87,413 gross tons, Cape Century is the 5,002nd 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 610th by tonnage — larger than 91% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Cape Century is the 304th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 221 bulk carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which 29 are larger by tonnage.

Cape Century was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 42nd 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.

The registry attributes 181 vessels to NKK, with a median tonnage of 56,076 GT, delivered between 1958 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 289.0 m overall, Cape Century is 99.0 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 9253088 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.