Professor Wenger

At 17,784 gross tons, Professor Wenger is the 28,322nd 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 3.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,335th by tonnage — larger than 18% 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.

Niue is the country of registry for 30 vessels in this directory, of which Professor Wenger is the 4th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (13 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,444 GT. Browse every ship flagged Niue.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 bulk carriers flying the Niue flag, of which none is larger than Professor Wenger.

Professor Wenger 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 560th 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.

At 169.0 m overall, Professor Wenger is 21.0 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 9235969 this registry holds 79 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9235969, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.