Largest in this registry
#12,134
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#6,751
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9303699
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 413136000
- Call sign
- BPFQ
- Flag state
- People's Republic of China
- Port of registry
- Shanghai
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How Jin Niu Zuo compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 43,153 gross tons, Jin Niu Zuo is the 12,134th 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 7.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 6,751st by tonnage — larger than 86% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Jin Niu Zuo is the 189th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,851 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 86 are larger by tonnage.
Jin Niu Zuo was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 307th 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.
The registry attributes 274 vessels to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company, with a median tonnage of 41,482 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 229.0 m overall, Jin Niu Zuo is 114.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
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