Hikari

At 159,960 gross tons, Hikari is the 858th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 152nd by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Hikari is the 132nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 301 oil tankers flying the Panama flag, of which 32 are larger by tonnage.

Hikari was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 20th 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 333.0 m overall, Hikari is 154.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9262754 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9262754, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.