Ever Union

At 69,218 gross tons, Ever Union is the 6,644th 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 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 3,557th by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which Ever Union is the 34th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 144 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Palau flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

Ever Union was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 75th 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.

The registry attributes 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 285.0 m overall, Ever Union is 170.0 m longer 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 9116618 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1994 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9116618, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 6×3 + 1×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.