Encofrador

At 4,284 gross tons, Encofrador is the 46,697th 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 6,264th by tonnage — larger than 3% 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.

Spain is the country of registry for 720 vessels in this directory, of which Encofrador is the 107th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (483 ships), and the median vessel measures 452 GT. Browse every ship flagged Spain.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 bulk carriers flying the Spain flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Encofrador was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 765th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 15 vessels to Naval Gijón, with a median tonnage of 10,965 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 103.0 m overall, Encofrador is 87.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8012267 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1981 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, 8012267, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 87 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.