Takayama

At 27,440 gross tons, Takayama is the 21,514th 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 4.6 times 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 12,104th by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Takayama is the 470th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 349 are larger by tonnage.

Takayama was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 179th 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 165.0 m overall, Takayama is 50.0 m longer 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 8202343 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1982 and which range from 1981 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.

Its IMO number, 8202343, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.