El Grasso

At 92,758 gross tons, El Grasso is the 4,134th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 353rd by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Belgium is the country of registry for 258 vessels in this directory, of which El Grasso is the 18th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,462 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belgium.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 bulk carriers flying the Belgium flag, of which none is larger than El Grasso.

El Grasso was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 221st 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 291.0 m overall, El Grasso is 101.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9624251 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 1970 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9624251, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 141 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.