«Govind Prasad»

At 67,713 gross tons, «Govind Prasad» is the 6,737th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 876th by tonnage — larger than 87% 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.

«Govind Prasad» was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 34th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 53 vessels to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,820 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 263.0 m overall, «Govind Prasad» is 73.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7926112 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 7926112, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 1×2 = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.