IMO 9578232

At 5,189 gross tons, IMO 9578232 is the 43,885th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 90th by tonnage — larger than 74% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

Denmark is the country of registry for 849 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9578232 is the 364th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (495 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,678 GT. Browse every ship flagged Denmark.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 11 dredgers flying the Denmark flag, of which none is larger than IMO 9578232.

IMO 9578232 was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,042nd 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.

The registry attributes 84 vessels to Peene-Werft, with a median tonnage of 8,821 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 111.3 m overall, IMO 9578232 is 31.3 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9578232 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2009 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9578232, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 172 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.