Universal Baltimore

At 33,042 gross tons, Universal Baltimore is the 17,288th 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 5.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,073rd by tonnage — larger than 52% 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.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Universal Baltimore is the 1,843rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 680 bulk carriers flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 317 are larger by tonnage.

Universal Baltimore was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,023rd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 119 vessels to Qingshan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 12,798 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 190.0 m overall, Universal Baltimore is within a metre of the 190.0 m median length for bulk carriers on record and a draft of 12.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9500819 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2004 to 2018. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.

Its IMO number, 9500819, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 1×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.