At 2,532 gross tons, Rana Express is the 54,600th 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 2.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 30,990th by tonnage — larger than 38% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Rana Express is the 1,411th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 950 are larger by tonnage.
Rana Express was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 846th 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 187 vessels to SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with a median tonnage of 2,452 GT, delivered between 1962 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 86.6 m overall, Rana Express is 28.4 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9210048 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 9210048, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
