J.F.J.De Nul

At 9,497 gross tons, J.F.J.De Nul is the 36,827th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 50th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.

Mauritius is the country of registry for 24 vessels in this directory, of which J.F.J.De Nul is the 4th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (12 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Mauritius.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 dredgers flying the Mauritius flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

J.F.J.De Nul was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 709th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 140.0 m overall, J.F.J.De Nul is 60.0 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9260677 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2001 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9260677, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.