Chyornoye More

At 13,496 gross tons, Chyornoye More is the 32,096th 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 2.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 18,067th by tonnage — larger than 64% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Ukraine is the country of registry for 287 vessels in this directory, of which Chyornoye More is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (166 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,785 GT. Browse every ship flagged Ukraine.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 166 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Ukraine flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

Chyornoye More was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 449th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 172.0 m overall, Chyornoye More is 57.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7646566 this registry holds 32 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1951 to 1977. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 156 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.