Largest in this registry
#5,472
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest bulk carrier
#704
of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 9127265
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 416273000
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Taiwan
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Bulk carrier
In context
How China Steel Trader compares
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 82,112 gross tons, China Steel Trader is the 5,472nd 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 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 704th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.
Taiwan is the country of registry for 294 vessels in this directory, of which China Steel Trader is the 28th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (132 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,330 GT. Browse every ship flagged Taiwan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 bulk carriers flying the Taiwan flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
China Steel Trader was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 48th 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 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 288.0 m overall, China Steel Trader is 98.0 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 9127265 this registry holds 73 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 2016ship breaking
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at CSBC Corporation, Taiwan
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
Where this page comes from
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