Gulbeniz A

At 26,195 gross tons, Gulbeniz A is the 22,152nd 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 4.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,105th by tonnage — larger than 43% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Turkey is the country of registry for 748 vessels in this directory, of which Gulbeniz A is the 82nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (450 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,113 GT. Browse every ship flagged Turkey.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 container ships flying the Turkey flag, of which none is larger than Gulbeniz A.

Gulbeniz A was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,330th 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 216 vessels to Volkswerft, with a median tonnage of 3,869 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 210.5 m overall, Gulbeniz A is 11.1 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record and a draft of 11.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9491850 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2007 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9491850, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 9×5 + 1×4 + 8×3 + 5×2 = 170 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.