Taskent

At 43,286 gross tons, Taskent is the 12,044th 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 7.2 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 6,686th by tonnage — larger than 87% 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.

Turkey is the country of registry for 748 vessels in this directory, of which Taskent is the 30th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (450 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,113 GT. Browse every ship flagged Turkey.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 450 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Turkey flag, of which 16 are larger by tonnage.

Taskent was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 178th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8513144 this registry holds 17 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1985 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 8513144, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.