Nexus

At 9,675 gross tons, Nexus is the 36,464th 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 1.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,423 offshore supplys held here, it ranks 63rd by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,061 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 4,961 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (283 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is North American Shipbuilding, with 55 hulls on record.

Nexus was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 1,060th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 180 vessels to Damen Shipyards Galați, with a median tonnage of 3,773 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 122.7 m overall, Nexus is 55.6 m longer than the 67.1 m median for offshore supplys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9715505 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2014 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9715505, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 5×3 + 0×2 = 145 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.