Thor Horizon

At 32,491 gross tons, Thor Horizon is the 17,876th 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 5.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,277th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.

Thor Horizon was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 315th 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 195.0 m overall, Thor Horizon is 5.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9137117 this registry holds 75 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9137117, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 7×4 + 1×3 + 1×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.