Silverfjord

At 27,828 gross tons, Silverfjord is the 21,330th 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 4.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 100th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Silverfjord is the 2,443rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 general cargos flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Silverfjord was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 412th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 185.0 m overall, Silverfjord is 84.0 m longer than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9225249 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1998 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9225249, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.