IMO 9673018

At 62,106 gross tons, IMO 9673018 is the 7,646th 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 74th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9673018 is the 762nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 car carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 9673018 was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 300th 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 241 vessels to CSC Jinling, with a median tonnage of 25,609 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.9 m overall, IMO 9673018 is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9673018 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9673018, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 7×5 + 3×4 + 0×3 + 1×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.