Harvest Leader

At 71,177 gross tons, Harvest Leader is the 6,530th 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 36th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Harvest Leader was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 243rd 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 1,480 vessels to HD Hyundai Mipo, with a median tonnage of 29,375 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, Harvest Leader is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 36.0 m and a draft of 10.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9690523 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2013 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9690523, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 9×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 2×2 = 163 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.