ام‌وی تارگت

At 42,515 gross tons, ام‌وی تارگت is the 12,537th 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 7.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,034th by tonnage — larger than 65% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Netherlands Antilles is the country of registry for 14 vessels in this directory, of which ام‌وی تارگت is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (8 ships), and the median vessel measures 25,792 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands Antilles.

ام‌وی تارگت was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 101st 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 105 vessels to Brodosplit, with a median tonnage of 27,539 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 218.0 m overall, ام‌وی تارگت is 39.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record, with a beam of 44.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8617938 this registry holds 24 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.

Its IMO number, 8617938, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 9×3 + 3×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.