MV Besant

MV Besant was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT. 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.

At 83.0 m overall, MV Besant is 32.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 4.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9676149 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2010 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9676149, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 7×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 169 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.