Shen Kuo

At 2,771 gross tons, Shen Kuo is the 53,400th 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 2.2 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 30,352nd by tonnage — larger than 39% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Shen Kuo is the 2,541st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,851 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 1,266 are larger by tonnage.

Shen Kuo was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 973rd 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 63.0 m overall, Shen Kuo is 52.0 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 9841639 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2017 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.