Niban

At 162,863 gross tons, Niban is the 528th 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 27 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 231st by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

Saudi Arabia is the country of registry for 302 vessels in this directory, of which Niban is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (207 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,877 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saudi Arabia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 207 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Saudi Arabia flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Niban was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 12th 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.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9484716 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9484716, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 8×5 = 166 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.