At 51,770 gross tons, MV Hoegh Osaka is the 9,506th 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 485 car carriers held here, it ranks 222nd by tonnage — larger than 52% 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.
Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which MV Hoegh Osaka is the 523rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 23 car carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which 11 are larger by tonnage.
MV Hoegh Osaka 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 199th 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 1 vessels to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, Tadotsu, Japan, with a median tonnage of 51,770 GT, delivered between 2000 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 179.9 m overall, MV Hoegh Osaka is 14.0 m shorter than the 193.9 m median for car carriers on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 10.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9185463 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 9185463, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
