IMO 9721956

At 338 gross tons, IMO 9721956 is the 77,163rd 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 18 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 612 research / surveys held here, it ranks 434th by tonnage — larger than 10% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,180 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,452 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (90 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Wärtsilä, with 36 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9721956 is the 9,168th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 research / surveys flying the Panama flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

IMO 9721956 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 1,681st 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.

At 30.6 m overall, IMO 9721956 is 40.4 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 8.7 m and a draft of 3.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9721956 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9721956, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 156 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.