At 3,277 gross tons, Highland Navigator is the 50,558th 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 28,827th by tonnage — larger than 42% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Highland Navigator is the 2,246th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,614 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Malta flag, of which 1,367 are larger by tonnage.
Highland Navigator was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 839th 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.
The registry attributes 67 vessels to Søviknes Verft, with a median tonnage of 3,160 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 84.0 m overall, Highland Navigator is 31.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9239769 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.
Its IMO number, 9239769, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 9×4 + 7×3 + 6×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
