«Planica»

At 24,750 gross tons, «Planica» is the 23,228th 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 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,299th by tonnage — larger than 34% 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.

«Planica» was built in 1984, making it 42 years old. It is one of 1,492 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,366 GT; within it this ship is the 200th 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.

The registry attributes 230 vessels to Mitsui Tamano Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 31,228 GT, delivered between 1950 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.8 m overall, «Planica» is 7.2 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8109046 this registry holds 38 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1981 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, 8109046, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.