Gao Cheng 2

At 12,320 gross tons, Gao Cheng 2 is the 33,080th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 919th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Gao Cheng 2 is the 1,912th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 48 tankers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 26 are larger by tonnage.

Gao Cheng 2 was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 1,676th 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 149.0 m overall, Gao Cheng 2 is 10.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9571210 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9571210, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.