Nam Dae Chon

At 15,888 gross tons, Nam Dae Chon is the 30,247th 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 2.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,691st by tonnage — larger than 12% 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.

North Korea is the country of registry for 207 vessels in this directory, of which Nam Dae Chon is the 11th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (119 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,522 GT. Browse every ship flagged North Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 bulk carriers flying the North Korea flag, of which none is larger than Nam Dae Chon.

Nam Dae Chon was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 506th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 160.0 m overall, Nam Dae Chon is 30.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9138680 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1995 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9138680, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.