«Chiquita Belgie»

At 13,049 gross tons, «Chiquita Belgie» is the 32,430th 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 24th by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which «Chiquita Belgie» is the 1,150th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 57 reefers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.

«Chiquita Belgie» was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 309th 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 7 vessels to Danyard Frederikshavn, with a median tonnage of 13,049 GT, delivered between 1983 and 1994. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 158.0 m overall, «Chiquita Belgie» is 29.6 m longer than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record, with a beam of 24.4 m and a draft of 10.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9015204 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 9015204, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 0×2 = 94 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.