Kassem Sultan

At 2,000 gross tons, Kassem Sultan is the 57,727th 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 3.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 36 barges held here, it ranks 13th by tonnage — larger than 45% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,483 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 33,130 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (8 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Peene-Werft, with 2 hulls on record.

Egypt is the country of registry for 264 vessels in this directory, of which Kassem Sultan is the 76th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (151 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,000 GT. Browse every ship flagged Egypt.

Kassem Sultan was built in 1990, making it 36 years old. It is one of 1,306 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,025 GT; within it this ship is the 640th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 60.0 m overall, Kassem Sultan is 46.7 m shorter than the 106.7 m median for barges on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9004906 this registry holds 85 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1990 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1990.

Its IMO number, 9004906, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.