Wuliao 18

At 3,000 gross tons, Wuliao 18 is the 51,508th 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 2.0 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,242 general cargos held here, it ranks 2,582nd by tonnage — larger than 53% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,963 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 10,970 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (565 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec, with 137 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Wuliao 18 is the 2,418th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 205 general cargos flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 119 are larger by tonnage.

Wuliao 18 was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 2,005th 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 75.0 m overall, Wuliao 18 is 26.0 m shorter than the 101.0 m median for general cargos on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9559535 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9559535, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 175 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.