Cte.Bula

At 392 gross tons, Cte.Bula is the 76,072nd 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 15 times smaller than 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 43,305th by tonnage — larger than 13% 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.

Angola is the country of registry for 42 vessels in this directory, of which Cte.Bula is the 27th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (34 ships), and the median vessel measures 616 GT. Browse every ship flagged Angola.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Angola flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.

Cte.Bula was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 759th 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.

At 40.0 m overall, Cte.Bula is 75.0 m shorter 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 8320339 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1983 to 1988. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.

Its IMO number, 8320339, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 99 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.