Feng Shun

At 7,529 gross tons, Feng Shun is the 39,398th 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 1.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1,063rd by tonnage — larger than 81% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Feng Shun is the 100th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 131 general cargos flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Feng Shun was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 407th 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.

At 130.0 m overall, Feng Shun is 29.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9097032 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 1903 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.

Its IMO number, 9097032, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.