«Vogebulker»

At 86,192 gross tons, «Vogebulker» is the 5,071st 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 635th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.

«Vogebulker» was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 53rd 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 289.0 m overall, «Vogebulker» is 99.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record and a draft of 17.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9174658 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1991 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9174658, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 7×5 + 4×4 + 6×3 + 5×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.