Oriental Silver

At 13,456 gross tons, Oriental Silver is the 32,140th 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,822nd by tonnage — larger than 24% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Indonesia is the country of registry for 2,700 vessels in this directory, of which Oriental Silver is the 354th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,484 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,078 GT. Browse every ship flagged Indonesia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 123 container ships flying the Indonesia flag, of which 27 are larger by tonnage.

Oriental Silver was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 557th 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.

At 159.0 m overall, Oriental Silver is 62.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9146089 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9146089, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.