El Metro

At 297 gross tons, El Metro is the 78,189th 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 20 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 442nd by tonnage — larger than 9% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Mexico is the country of registry for 471 vessels in this directory, of which El Metro is the 383rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (370 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,019 GT. Browse every ship flagged Mexico.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 research / surveys flying the Mexico flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

El Metro was built in 1967, making it 59 years old. It is one of 496 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 757 GT; within it this ship is the 237th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 50.0 m overall, El Metro is 21.0 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7003843 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1947 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1967.

Its IMO number, 7003843, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.