Chang Shun 6

At 18,738 gross tons, Chang Shun 6 is the 27,466th 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 3.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,206th by tonnage — larger than 20% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Chang Shun 6 is the 4,606th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,548 bulk carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 1,198 are larger by tonnage.

At 182.0 m overall, Chang Shun 6 is 8.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7004598 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1928 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 7004598, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 98 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.