IMO 9388596

At 4,678 gross tons, IMO 9388596 is the 45,513th 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 1.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 23rd by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9388596 is the 447th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 55 tugs flying the Netherlands flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 9388596 was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 1,747th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 71 vessels to Vard Tulcea, with a median tonnage of 4,678 GT, delivered between 1985 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 73.2 m overall, IMO 9388596 is 40.9 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9388596 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9388596, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 186 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.