Chin Shan

At 91,166 gross tons, Chin Shan is the 4,519th 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 490th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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 Chin Shan is the 709th 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 118 are larger by tonnage.

Chin Shan was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 66th 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 270 vessels to CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, with a median tonnage of 43,605 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 289.0 m overall, Chin Shan 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 9290268 this registry holds 78 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.