Mei Zhou Hai

At 36,079 gross tons, Mei Zhou Hai is the 15,665th 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 6.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 8,628th by tonnage — larger than 83% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Mei Zhou Hai is the 520th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,851 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 178 are larger by tonnage.

Mei Zhou Hai was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 163rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 224.0 m overall, Mei Zhou Hai is 109.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7305679 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1958 to 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.