IMO 9549968

At 192 gross tons, IMO 9549968 is the 81,203rd 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 31 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 1,044th by tonnage — larger than 17% 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.

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9549968 is the 1,421st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 239 tugs flying the United States flag, of which 150 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 9549968 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 2,661st 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.

At 79.8 m overall, IMO 9549968 is 47.5 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record, with a beam of 36.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9549968 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 1993 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9549968, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 188 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.