IMO 9034523

At 2,223 gross tons, IMO 9034523 is the 56,541st 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 2.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 420th by tonnage — larger than 26% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

IMO 9034523 was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 642nd 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 35 vessels to Hermann Sürken, with a median tonnage of 1,525 GT, delivered between 1977 and 1993. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 74.0 m overall, IMO 9034523 is 25.2 m shorter than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9034523 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.

Its IMO number, 9034523, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 5×3 + 2×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.