Sofala

At 8,386 gross tons, Sofala is the 38,324th 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 1.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 167th by tonnage — larger than 82% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Sofala was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 509th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 133.3 m overall, Sofala is 43.3 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 20.2 m and a draft of 8.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8215780 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 1983 and which range from 1982 to 1986. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.

Its IMO number, 8215780, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 5×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 130 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.