Golden Karoo

At 30,469 gross tons, Golden Karoo is the 18,987th 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 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 7th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Golden Karoo was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 819th 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.

The registry attributes 119 vessels to Qingshan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 12,798 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Golden Karoo is 110.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 30.2 m and a draft of 10.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9465423 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9465423, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 6×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 2×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.