Kortrijk

At 25,952 gross tons, Kortrijk is the 22,347th 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 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 578 lpg carriers held here, it ranks 94th by tonnage — larger than 83% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,901 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 44,690 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (100 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 40 hulls on record.

Belgium is the country of registry for 258 vessels in this directory, of which Kortrijk is the 45th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (191 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,462 GT. Browse every ship flagged Belgium.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 9 lpg carriers flying the Belgium flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Kortrijk was built in 2016, making it 10 years old. It is one of 1,628 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,388 GT; within it this ship is the 787th 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 180.0 m overall, Kortrijk is 80.8 m longer than the 99.2 m median for lpg carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9687514 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2016.

Its IMO number, 9687514, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 184 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.