Venus

At 28,322 gross tons, Venus is the 21,010th 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 4.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 604 chemical / products tankers held here, it ranks 46th by tonnage — larger than 92% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,979 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,682 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (80 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 35 hulls on record.

Tuvalu is the country of registry for 239 vessels in this directory, of which Venus is the 50th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (115 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,517 GT. Browse every ship flagged Tuvalu.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 chemical / products tankers flying the Tuvalu flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Venus was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 271st 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.

At 182.0 m overall, Venus is 62.9 m longer than the 119.1 m median for chemical / products tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9162526 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1997 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9162526, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.