KHK Empress

At 160,682 gross tons, KHK Empress is the 713th 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 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 355th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which KHK Empress is the 47th 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 1,799 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Singapore flag, of which 24 are larger by tonnage.

KHK Empress was built in 2019, making it 7 years old. It is one of 1,261 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 29,000 GT; within it this ship is the 55th 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, KHK Empress is 218.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9830965 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2017 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2019.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.