MV Highlanders

At 28,460 gross tons, MV Highlanders is the 20,943rd 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 4.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 11,828th by tonnage — larger than 76% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which MV Highlanders is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 404 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Canada flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

MV Highlanders was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 690th 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 50 vessels to Fosen Yard, with a median tonnage of 6,764 GT, delivered between 1973 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 199.0 m overall, MV Highlanders is 84.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.7 m and a draft of 6.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9331189 this registry holds 75 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9331189, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 3×5 + 1×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.