La Paix

At 79,755 gross tons, La Paix is the 5,856th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 746th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which La Paix is the 578th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 680 bulk carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 70 are larger by tonnage.

La Paix was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 53rd 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 270.0 m overall, La Paix is 80.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9081708 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1990 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9081708, 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.