Inspiration

At 43,764 gross tons, Inspiration is the 11,734th 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,458th by tonnage — larger than 78% 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.

Greece is the country of registry for 1,164 vessels in this directory, of which Inspiration is the 399th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (835 ships), and the median vessel measures 29,858 GT. Browse every ship flagged Greece.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 78 bulk carriers flying the Greece flag, of which 37 are larger by tonnage.

Inspiration was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 666th 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 229.0 m overall, Inspiration is 39.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9545285 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9545285, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.