Pacific Merchants

At 201,384 gross tons, Pacific Merchants is the 163rd 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 34 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 8th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Pacific Merchants is the 34th 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 3 are larger by tonnage.

Pacific Merchants was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 4th 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.

At 359.0 m overall, Pacific Merchants is 169.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9532604 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9532604, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.