Pedro Álvares Cabral

At 17,130 gross tons, Pedro Álvares Cabral is the 28,823rd 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 360 dredgers held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,086 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,701 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is People's Republic of China (43 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Royal IHC, with 21 hulls on record.

Pedro Álvares Cabral was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,535th 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 144 vessels to Uljanik, with a median tonnage of 25,600 GT, delivered between 1952 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 147.6 m overall, Pedro Álvares Cabral is 67.6 m longer than the 80.0 m median for dredgers on record and a draft of 11.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9606132 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9606132, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 3×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.