Hoegh Shanghai

At 68,871 gross tons, Hoegh Shanghai is the 6,670th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 46th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.

Hoegh Shanghai was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 195th 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 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 228.7 m overall, Hoegh Shanghai is 34.8 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 10.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9312482 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9312482, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 122 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.