Shuang Tai 18

At 8,965 gross tons, Shuang Tai 18 is the 37,471st 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 1.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 368th by tonnage — larger than 54% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Shuang Tai 18 is the 1,840th 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 29 ro-ros flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Shuang Tai 18 was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,852nd 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 110.0 m overall, Shuang Tai 18 is 15.0 m shorter than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9640267 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9640267, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 137 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.