At 57,692 gross tons, Morning Courier is the 8,453rd 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 9.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 162nd by tonnage — larger than 63% of that group. Their median tonnage is 49,792 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 68,871 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (132 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with 41 hulls on record.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Morning Courier is the 414th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 car carriers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.
Morning Courier was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 234th 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 227 vessels to Stocznia Gdynia, with a median tonnage of 23,817 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2009. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.9 m overall, Morning Courier is 6.0 m longer than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9285639 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2003 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9285639, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
