Ore Shantou

At 173,762 gross tons, Ore Shantou is the 305th 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 29 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 94th 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Ore Shantou is the 57th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,478 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 25 are larger by tonnage.

Ore Shantou was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 21st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 340.0 m overall, Ore Shantou is 225.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9847542 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2018 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2020.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 182 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.