Chong Gen

At 6,558 gross tons, Chong Gen is the 40,928th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1,253rd by tonnage — larger than 77% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

North Korea is the country of registry for 207 vessels in this directory, of which Chong Gen is the 59th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (119 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,522 GT. Browse every ship flagged North Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 59 general cargos flying the North Korea flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Chong Gen was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 369th 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.

At 130.0 m overall, Chong Gen is 29.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8862155 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1931 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8862155, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.