Meridian Express

At 29,289 gross tons, Meridian Express is the 20,358th 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 4.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 439th by tonnage — larger than 80% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Meridian Express was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 893rd 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 1,480 vessels to HD Hyundai Mipo, with a median tonnage of 29,375 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 183.0 m overall, Meridian Express is 44.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 32.0 m and a draft of 12.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9596272 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9596272, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 9×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 182 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.