Etesco Takatsugu J

At 56,549 gross tons, Etesco Takatsugu J is the 8,713th 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 9.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 78th by tonnage — larger than 91% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Etesco Takatsugu J is the 1,229th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 107 rig / offshore units flying the Panama flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Etesco Takatsugu J was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 554th 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 218.0 m overall, Etesco Takatsugu J is 144.0 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9525235 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9525235, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.