Solando

At 13,472 gross tons, Solando is the 32,125th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 884th by tonnage — larger than 61% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory, of which Solando is the 55th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 tankers flying the Sweden flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Solando was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,332nd 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 149.9 m overall, Solando is 10.9 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record, with a beam of 23.4 m and a draft of 9.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9428073 this registry holds 75 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2007 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9428073, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.