Karadeniz S

At 33,312 gross tons, Karadeniz S is the 17,034th 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 5.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 2,962nd by tonnage — larger than 54% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Karadeniz S is the 2,914th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,548 bulk carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 706 are larger by tonnage.

Karadeniz S was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 944th 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.

The registry attributes 118 vessels to STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 32,968 GT, delivered between 2002 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 190.0 m overall, Karadeniz S is within a metre of the 190.0 m median length for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9477440 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2006 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9477440, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 7×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 170 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.