At 167 gross tons, Hotaluna is the 81,856th 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 36 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 48,022nd by tonnage — larger than 3% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Hotaluna is the 2,350th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,534 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Japan flag, of which 1,356 are larger by tonnage.
Hotaluna was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,624th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
At 40.0 m overall, Hotaluna is 75.0 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 9644811 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2012 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.
Its IMO number, 9644811, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 4×5 + 4×4 + 8×3 + 1×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
