Nordorchid

At 57,081 gross tons, Nordorchid is the 8,636th 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 9.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 177th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Madeira is the country of registry for 295 vessels in this directory, of which Nordorchid is the 38th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (147 ships), and the median vessel measures 17,068 GT. Browse every ship flagged Madeira.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 7 tankers flying the Madeira flag, of which none is larger than Nordorchid.

Nordorchid was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 312th 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 161 vessels to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 51,956 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 228.6 m overall, Nordorchid is 89.6 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 42.0 m and a draft of 14.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9624079 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 1970 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9624079, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 0×3 + 7×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.