Ferbec

At 27,198 gross tons, Ferbec is the 21,595th 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 4.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,927th by tonnage — larger than 39% 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.

Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Ferbec is the 20th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 bulk carriers flying the Barbados flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Ferbec was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 426th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 187.5 m overall, Ferbec is 2.5 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 9259848 this registry holds 78 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9259848, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.