At 64,158 gross tons, «Mekar Bergading» is the 7,179th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 608th by tonnage — larger than 80% 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.
Malaysia is the country of registry for 706 vessels in this directory, of which «Mekar Bergading» is the 39th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (400 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,708 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malaysia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 70 oil tankers flying the Malaysia flag, of which none is larger than «Mekar Bergading».
«Mekar Bergading» was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 309th 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 6 vessels to New Times Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 63,466 GT, delivered between 2006 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 307.0 m overall, «Mekar Bergading» is 128.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9417787 this registry holds 80 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9417787, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
