Kurobe

At 20,069 gross tons, Kurobe is the 26,647th 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 3.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 35th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Kurobe is the 4,461st 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 24 multi-purposes flying the Panama flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Kurobe was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 1,475th 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 174.4 m overall, Kurobe is 84.4 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 28.0 m and a draft of 10.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9392171 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9392171, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 9×5 + 2×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.