Safmarine Agulhas

At 16,800 gross tons, Safmarine Agulhas is the 29,295th 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 2.8 times 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 16,381st by tonnage — larger than 67% 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.

Safmarine Agulhas was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 378th 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.

The registry attributes 309 vessels to Szczecin Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 16,639 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9122021 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1993 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9122021, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 91 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.