Lin Jie

At 89,492 gross tons, Lin Jie is the 4,760th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 538th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Lin Jie is the 472nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 60 are larger by tonnage.

Lin Jie was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 72nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 274 vessels to Namura Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 44,442 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 288.0 m overall, Lin Jie is 98.0 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 9271389 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2003 and which range from 2002 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.