Prathama

At 1,120 gross tons, Prathama is the 64,795th 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 5.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 4,680th by tonnage — larger than 16% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

India is the country of registry for 968 vessels in this directory, of which Prathama is the 766th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (514 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,306 GT. Browse every ship flagged India.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 171 general cargos flying the India flag, of which 124 are larger by tonnage.

Prathama was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 1,054th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 67.0 m overall, Prathama is 34.0 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9091442 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 1985 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9091442, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.