Pex

At 2,995 gross tons, Pex is the 51,836th 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 483rd by tonnage — larger than 49% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Pex was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 819th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 263 vessels to Ruse Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 2,491 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 90.3 m overall, Pex is within a metre of the 90.0 m median length for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 15.2 m and a draft of 5.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9240249 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1992 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9240249, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.