Shagang Faith

At 152,306 gross tons, Shagang Faith is the 1,351st 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 56th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Shagang Faith is the 178th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 669 bulk carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Shagang Faith was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 49th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 327.0 m overall, Shagang Faith is 137.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9521980 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 1983 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9521980, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.