Tulehu

At 1,590 gross tons, Tulehu is the 60,904th 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 3.8 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 494 reefers held here, it ranks 394th by tonnage — larger than 11% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,893 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 12,345 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kitanihon Shipbuilding, with 24 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Tulehu is the 2,865th 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 8 reefers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Tulehu was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 428th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 82.0 m overall, Tulehu is 46.4 m shorter than the 128.4 m median for reefers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9090888 this registry holds 43 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 1985 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1988.

Its IMO number, 9090888, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.