Tian Lu Hai

At 88,856 gross tons, Tian Lu Hai is the 4,841st 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 553rd by tonnage — larger than 91% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Tian Lu Hai is the 44th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 671 bulk carriers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Tian Lu Hai was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 117th 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 289.0 m overall, Tian Lu Hai is 99.0 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 9298480 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.

Its IMO number, 9298480, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 180 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.