At 51,821 gross tons, MV Blue Marlin is the 9,499th 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 8.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 4th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which MV Blue Marlin is the 507th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 heavy lifts flying the Malta flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MV Blue Marlin was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 198th 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 270 vessels to CSBC Corporation, Taiwan, with a median tonnage of 43,605 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 224.8 m overall, MV Blue Marlin is 144.3 m longer than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record, with a beam of 63.1 m and a draft of 13.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9186338 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 9186338, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
