At 623 gross tons, Hjellestad is the 71,474th 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 9.6 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 40,070th by tonnage — larger than 19% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Hjellestad is the 1,962nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 1,286 are larger by tonnage.
Hjellestad was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 895th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 12 vessels to Westcon Yards, with a median tonnage of 2,584 GT, delivered between 1993 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 43.2 m overall, Hjellestad is 71.8 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 9857341 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2018 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2020.
Its IMO number, 9857341, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 5×5 + 7×4 + 3×3 + 4×2 = 181 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
