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Largest in this registry
#19,452
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest bulk carrier
#3,640
of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
In context
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 29,999 gross tons, Kang Chang is the 19,452nd 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 5.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,640th by tonnage — larger than 44% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Kang Chang is the 1,304th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 322 are larger by tonnage.
Kang Chang was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 356th 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 213 vessels to Onomichi Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 28,520 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 189.0 m overall, Kang Chang is 1.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9238193 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
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
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9238193, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among bulk carriers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Akij Noor | 2002 | 30,000 |
| Nadhif | 2003 | 30,000 |
| Grand Royal Express | 2002 | 30,000 |
| Kang Chang (this ship) | 2002 | 29,999 |
| Anastasia S | 2004 | 29,990 |
| Hua Sheng 02 | 2004 | 29,990 |
| Ace Win | 2001 | 29,986 |
Ace Win
2001 · 29,986 GT · Panama