Sein Sun

At 4,428 gross tons, Sein Sun is the 46,177th 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 1.4 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 26,398th by tonnage — larger than 47% 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.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Sein Sun is the 522nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 722 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the South Korea flag, of which 226 are larger by tonnage.

Sein Sun 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 725th 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.

At 109.0 m overall, Sein Sun is 6.0 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 8415859 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1984 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1984.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.