Kulsamut

At 8,892 gross tons, Kulsamut is the 37,589th 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 859th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Thailand is the country of registry for 612 vessels in this directory, of which Kulsamut is the 103rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (335 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,958 GT. Browse every ship flagged Thailand.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 44 general cargos flying the Thailand flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Kulsamut was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 581st 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 140.0 m overall, Kulsamut is 39.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9119438 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1994 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.

Its IMO number, 9119438, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.