Sun No.31

At 724 gross tons, Sun No.31 is the 69,416th 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 8.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 38,953rd by tonnage — larger than 22% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Sun No.31 is the 1,003rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 722 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the South Korea flag, of which 451 are larger by tonnage.

Sun No.31 was built in 1980, making it 46 years old. It is one of 1,736 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,301 GT; within it this ship is the 1,083rd 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.

At 57.0 m overall, Sun No.31 is 58.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8004260 this registry holds 65 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.