Jing Gang San

At 164,169 gross tons, Jing Gang San is the 472nd 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 28th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Jing Gang San is the 35th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 152 oil tankers flying the Singapore flag, of which none is larger than Jing Gang San.

Jing Gang San was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 30th 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 333.0 m overall, Jing Gang San is 154.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9629378 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9629378, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 168 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.