Maple Fortitude

At 20,867 gross tons, Maple Fortitude is the 26,113th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,944th by tonnage — larger than 24% 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 Maple Fortitude is the 1,689th 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 408 are larger by tonnage.

Maple Fortitude was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,530th 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.

The registry attributes 15 vessels to Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 20,867 GT, delivered between 2008 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 179.9 m overall, Maple Fortitude is 10.1 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9587178 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2010 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9587178, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 8×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 7×2 = 178 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.