Hibari

At 58,103 gross tons, Hibari is the 8,382nd 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 9.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 936th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Hibari is the 204th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 135 bulk carriers flying the Japan flag, of which 28 are larger by tonnage.

Hibari was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 101st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 240.0 m overall, Hibari is 50.0 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 9142203 this registry holds 70 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.