Tianjin Highway

At 48,927 gross tons, Tianjin Highway is the 10,114th 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 8.2 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 5,478th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Tianjin Highway is the 1,488th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5,698 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Panama flag, of which 775 are larger by tonnage.

Tianjin Highway 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 290th 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.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9294355 this registry holds 83 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, 9294355, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.