IMO 9866756

At 20,763 gross tons, IMO 9866756 is the 26,196th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,973rd by tonnage — larger than 23% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

IMO 9866756 was built in 2021, making it 5 years old. It is one of 251 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 15,776 GT; within it this ship is the 71st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 200.0 m overall, IMO 9866756 is 10.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record and a draft of 10.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9866756 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2017 to 2023. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2021.

Its IMO number, 9866756, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 6×5 + 6×4 + 7×3 + 5×2 = 196 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.