Haroldo Ramos

At 3,254 gross tons, Haroldo Ramos is the 50,648th 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 1.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 48th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

Brazil is the country of registry for 445 vessels in this directory, of which Haroldo Ramos is the 221st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (296 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Brazil.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 tugs flying the Brazil flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Haroldo Ramos was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 990th 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 77.0 m overall, Haroldo Ramos is 44.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9270244 this registry holds 33 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2002 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9270244, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.