At 5,138 gross tons, Dortmund is the 44,005th 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 1,633rd by tonnage — larger than 71% 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.
Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which Dortmund is the 211th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 general cargos flying the Portugal flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.
Dortmund was built in 1926, making it 100 years old. It is one of 41 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,067 GT; within it this ship is the 10th largest. Across the whole of the 1920s the registry holds 516 vessels, median 2,350 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 88 vessels to Blohm+Voss, with a median tonnage of 6,876 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 129.1 m overall, Dortmund is 28.1 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record, with a beam of 17.1 m and a draft of 7.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5214149 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1926 to 1957. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1926.
Its IMO number, 5214149, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 79 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
