At 2,449 gross tons, TQ Istanbul is the 55,294th 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 2.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 658th by tonnage — larger than 30% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.
Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which TQ Istanbul is the 281st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 multi-purposes flying the Palau flag, of which none is larger than TQ Istanbul.
TQ Istanbul was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 601st 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.
The registry attributes 35 vessels to P+S Werften, with a median tonnage of 6,370 GT, delivered between 1955 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 87.8 m overall, TQ Istanbul is 2.1 m shorter than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 12.8 m and a draft of 5.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9006332 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1990 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 9006332, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 102 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
