Molikpaq

At 68,358 gross tons, Molikpaq is the 6,703rd 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 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 31st by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Molikpaq is the 979th 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 107 rig / offshore units flying the Panama flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.

Molikpaq was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 16th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 111.0 m overall, Molikpaq is 37.0 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8752611 this registry holds 85 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1956 to 1988. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, 8752611, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 151 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.