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Largest in this registry
#64,638
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#36,484
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 1,140 gross tons, Nichioh Maru is the 64,638th 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 5.3 times smaller than 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 36,484th by tonnage — larger than 27% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Nichioh Maru is the 1,091st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,534 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Japan flag, of which 504 are larger by tonnage.
Nichioh Maru was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,422nd 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 740 vessels to Shin Kurushima Dockyard, with a median tonnage of 16,762 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 170.0 m overall, Nichioh Maru is 55.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 26.0 m and a draft of 8.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9609184 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9609184, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Tai Ping | 1974 | 1,142 |
| Permasan | 1971 | 1,141 |
| Confidence | 1996 | 1,141 |
| Nichioh Maru (this ship) | 2012 | 1,140 |
| Odd Lundberg | 2003 | 1,139 |
| Alba Rousing | 1986 | 1,139 |
| 0402 C Entre Rios | 1980 | 1,139 |