Chekiang

At 26,971 gross tons, Chekiang is the 21,734th 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 4.5 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 12,224th by tonnage — larger than 75% 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 Chekiang is the 1,443rd 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 878 are larger by tonnage.

Chekiang was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 528th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 194 vessels to Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 18,334 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 186.0 m overall, Chekiang is 71.0 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 9848778 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 1970 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2020.

Its IMO number, 9848778, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 4×5 + 8×4 + 7×3 + 7×2 = 198 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.