Shan He

At 49,375 gross tons, Shan He is the 10,071st 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 8.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,403rd by tonnage — larger than 62% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Shan He was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 103rd 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 37 vessels to Kanadevia Corporation, with a median tonnage of 16,390 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2001. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 50.0 m overall, Shan He is 171.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9043641 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9043641, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 4×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 4×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.