Manta

At 7,463 gross tons, Manta is the 39,506th 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 1.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 1,689th by tonnage — larger than 43% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Cook Islands is the country of registry for 193 vessels in this directory, of which Manta is the 51st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (94 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,988 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cook Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 18 oil tankers flying the Cook Islands flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Manta 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 523rd 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 120.0 m overall, Manta is 59.0 m shorter than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9123867 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9123867, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.