MV Vale Rio de Janeiro

At 198,980 gross tons, MV Vale Rio de Janeiro is the 192nd 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 33 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 18th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which MV Vale Rio de Janeiro is the 44th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.

The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 362.0 m overall, MV Vale Rio de Janeiro is 172.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 65.0 m and a draft of 23.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9572329 this registry holds 36 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 9572329, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 3×3 + 2×2 = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.