Suzuka

At 960 gross tons, Suzuka is the 66,503rd 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 6.2 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 37,492nd by tonnage — larger than 25% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Suzuka is the 1,222nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,534 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Japan flag, of which 564 are larger by tonnage.

Suzuka 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 989th 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 77.0 m overall, Suzuka is 38.0 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 7903122 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1979 to 1980. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1980.

Its IMO number, 7903122, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 122 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.