At 495 gross tons, IMO 9989596 is the 73,952nd 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 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 327th by tonnage — larger than 6% 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.
Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which IMO 9989596 is the 1,051st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 42 dredgers flying the Netherlands flag, of which 33 are larger by tonnage.
IMO 9989596 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 79th 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.
At 43.1 m overall, IMO 9989596 is 36.9 m shorter than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9989596 this registry holds 5 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024 and which range from 2023 to 2025. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.
Its IMO number, 9989596, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 8×5 + 9×4 + 5×3 + 9×2 = 226 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
