Luzon Strait

At 14,413 gross tons, Luzon Strait is the 31,365th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 9th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Luzon Strait is the 3,772nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 27 reefers flying the Liberia flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Luzon Strait was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 595th 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 270 vessels to CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, with a median tonnage of 43,605 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 167.0 m overall, Luzon Strait is 38.6 m longer than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 9.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9204960 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1993 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9204960, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.