At 31,863 gross tons, «Otago Bay» is the 18,209th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,359th by tonnage — larger than 48% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which «Otago Bay» is the 1,241st 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 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 308 are larger by tonnage.
«Otago Bay» was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 610th 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 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 189.9 m overall, «Otago Bay» is within a metre of the 190.0 m median length for bulk carriers on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9782015 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2015 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.
Its IMO number, 9782015, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 8×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 1×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
