El Kennar

At 1,334 gross tons, El Kennar is the 62,973rd 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 4.5 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 35,506th by tonnage — larger than 29% 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.

Algeria is the country of registry for 72 vessels in this directory, of which El Kennar is the 45th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (42 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,050 GT. Browse every ship flagged Algeria.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 42 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Algeria flag, of which 23 are larger by tonnage.

El Kennar was built in 1977, making it 49 years old. It is one of 1,791 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,622 GT; within it this ship is the 1,161st largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 86.0 m overall, El Kennar is 29.0 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 7606267 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1943 to 1979. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1977.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.