Chinese Taishan

At 24,427 gross tons, Chinese Taishan is the 23,398th 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 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 314th by tonnage — larger than 38% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Chinese Taishan is the 3,868th 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 43 cruise ships flying the Panama flag, of which 30 are larger by tonnage.

Chinese Taishan was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 407th 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 88 vessels to Blohm+Voss, with a median tonnage of 6,876 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 180.4 m overall, Chinese Taishan is 17.7 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 25.5 m and a draft of 7.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9183506 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1991 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.

Its IMO number, 9183506, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 3×4 + 5×3 + 0×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.