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Largest in this registry
#5,337
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#2,919
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 83,722 gross tons, Cheng He is the 5,337th 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 14 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 2,919th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.
Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Cheng He is the 495th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,407 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 332 are larger by tonnage.
Cheng He was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 150th 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 77 vessels to Universal Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 101,933 GT, delivered between 2003 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 277.0 m overall, Cheng He is 162.0 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 9304629 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9304629, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| NS Bora | 2010 | 83,747 |
| Minerva Symphony | 2006 | 83,742 |
| Roma Star | 1976 | 83,741 |
| Cheng He (this ship) | 2007 | 83,722 |
| Silver Cloud | 1972 | 83,714 |
| Topaz | 1975 | 83,712 |
| Bulk Isdemir | 1974 | 83,702 |
Kokkari
2008 · 156,902 GT · The Bahamas