Vento del Golfo

At 14,193 gross tons, Vento del Golfo is the 31,532nd 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 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 17,688th by tonnage — larger than 64% 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.

Vento del Golfo was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 613th 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.

The registry attributes 84 vessels to Peene-Werft, with a median tonnage of 8,821 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 154.5 m overall, Vento del Golfo is 39.5 m longer 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 9238064 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.

Its IMO number, 9238064, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 134 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.