«Ore Bayovar»

At 90,876 gross tons, «Ore Bayovar» is the 4,549th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 496th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.

«Ore Bayovar» was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 22nd 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.

The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 290.0 m overall, «Ore Bayovar» is 100.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record and a draft of 17.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9157686 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9157686, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 8×2 = 156 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.