Chang Ming

At 43,351 gross tons, Chang Ming is the 11,991st 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 1,541st 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Chang Ming is the 801st 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 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 153 are larger by tonnage.

Chang Ming was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 164th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 230 vessels to Mitsui Tamano Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 31,228 GT, delivered between 1950 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 229.0 m overall, Chang Ming is 39.0 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 9153109 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1993 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9153109, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 3×4 + 1×3 + 0×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.