Straits Venture

At 3,151 gross tons, Straits Venture is the 51,018th 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 1.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 94th by tonnage — larger than 58% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.

Indonesia is the country of registry for 2,700 vessels in this directory, of which Straits Venture is the 1,066th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,484 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,078 GT. Browse every ship flagged Indonesia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 heavy lifts flying the Indonesia flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Straits Venture was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 2,230th 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.

At 85.0 m overall, Straits Venture is 4.5 m longer than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9592501 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9592501, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.