Hoegh Transporter

At 57,757 gross tons, Hoegh Transporter is the 8,441st 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 158th by tonnage — larger than 66% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Hoegh Transporter is the 173rd 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 20 car carriers flying the Norway flag, of which 13 are larger by tonnage.

Hoegh Transporter was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 133rd 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 227 vessels to Stocznia Gdynia, with a median tonnage of 23,817 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.0 m overall, Hoegh Transporter is 5.1 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 9176395 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9176395, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 9×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.