Spring

At 52,176 gross tons, Spring is the 9,399th 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 8.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 999th by tonnage — larger than 85% 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.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Spring is the 91st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 bulk carriers flying the Italy flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Spring was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 111th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 36 vessels to Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini, with a median tonnage of 39,385 GT, delivered between 1972 and 2007. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 256.0 m overall, Spring is 66.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8900402 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.