Turkestan

At 4,182 gross tons, Turkestan is the 47,039th 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 1.4 times smaller than 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 26,893rd by tonnage — larger than 46% 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.

Kazakhstan is the country of registry for 39 vessels in this directory, of which Turkestan is the 14th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (30 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,910 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kazakhstan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kazakhstan flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Turkestan was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 1,536th 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 108.3 m overall, Turkestan is 6.7 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9396646 this registry holds 73 other vessels, whose median build year is 2007 and which range from 2005 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 176 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.