Da Liang

At 21,828 gross tons, Da Liang is the 25,485th 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 3.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 169th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Da Liang is the 1,191st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 205 general cargos flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Da Liang was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 893rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 179.0 m overall, Da Liang is 78.0 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 9608415 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2010 to 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9608415, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.