El Karib

At 499 gross tons, El Karib is the 73,209th 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 12 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 40,954th by tonnage — larger than 17% 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.

Morocco is the country of registry for 156 vessels in this directory, of which El Karib is the 60th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (97 ships), and the median vessel measures 395 GT. Browse every ship flagged Morocco.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 97 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Morocco flag, of which 31 are larger by tonnage.

El Karib was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 1,017th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 0.0 m overall, El Karib is 115.0 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 8912443 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1988 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.