Super Bayern

At 21,185 gross tons, Super Bayern is the 25,865th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,901st by tonnage — larger than 24% 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.

Barbados is the country of registry for 215 vessels in this directory, of which Super Bayern is the 35th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (85 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,937 GT. Browse every ship flagged Barbados.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 29 bulk carriers flying the Barbados flag, of which 10 are larger by tonnage.

Super Bayern was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 572nd 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 178.0 m overall, Super Bayern is 12.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9278911 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9278911, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 171 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.