IMO 9974905

At 493 gross tons, IMO 9974905 is the 74,096th 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 12 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 518th by tonnage — larger than 59% 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.

IMO 9974905 was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 80th 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 14 vessels to Sanmar Denizcilik, with a median tonnage of 390 GT, delivered between 2001 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 29.4 m overall, IMO 9974905 is 2.9 m shorter than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9974905 this registry holds 5 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024 and which range from 2023 to 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.

Its IMO number, 9974905, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 195 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.