Meita Maru

At 3,802 gross tons, Meita Maru is the 48,666th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 320th by tonnage — larger than 28% 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 Meita Maru is the 4,488th 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 26 are larger by tonnage.

Meita Maru was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 507th 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 106.0 m overall, Meita Maru is 22.4 m shorter than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9071583 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1992 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.

Its IMO number, 9071583, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.