Hong Kong Star

At 24,597 gross tons, Hong Kong Star is the 23,326th 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 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,323rd by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the country of registry for 561 vessels in this directory, of which Hong Kong Star is the 33rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,406 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.

Hong Kong Star was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 212th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 188.0 m overall, Hong Kong Star is 2.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8025290 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 110 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.