At 36,311 gross tons, Spar Aries is the 15,537th 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 6.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 2,587th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Spar Aries is the 306th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 24 bulk carriers flying the Norway flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Spar Aries was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 567th 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.
The registry attributes 129 vessels to Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., with a median tonnage of 36,311 GT, delivered between 2008 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 199.9 m overall, Spar Aries is 9.9 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 32.0 m and a draft of 13.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9701920 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2013 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9701920, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 1×4 + 9×3 + 2×2 = 140 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
