Peng Yan

At 34,886 gross tons, Peng Yan is the 16,363rd 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 5.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 2,780th by tonnage — larger than 57% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Peng Yan is the 559th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 671 bulk carriers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 254 are larger by tonnage.

Peng Yan was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 142nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 223.0 m overall, Peng Yan is 33.0 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 8020563 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.

Its IMO number, 8020563, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.