Ming Xiang Da 8

At 6,290 gross tons, Ming Xiang Da 8 is the 41,403rd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 1,305th by tonnage — larger than 76% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Ming Xiang Da 8 is the 6,883rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 565 general cargos flying the Panama flag, of which 224 are larger by tonnage.

Ming Xiang Da 8 was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 481st 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.

The registry attributes 129 vessels to Higaki Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 5,470 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 100.0 m overall, Ming Xiang Da 8 is 1.0 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9087673 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1994 and which range from 1993 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9087673, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 8×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 163 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.