City of Tokyo

At 42,247 gross tons, City of Tokyo is the 12,646th 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 7.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 293rd by tonnage — larger than 37% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

City of Tokyo was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 42nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 183.0 m overall, City of Tokyo is 10.9 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8709145 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8709145, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.