Xiang Hua

At 29,862 gross tons, Xiang Hua is the 19,675th 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 5.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,661st by tonnage — larger than 44% 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.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Xiang Hua is the 3,333rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,548 bulk carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 840 are larger by tonnage.

Xiang Hua was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 402nd 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 185 vessels to Shinkurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 30,767 GT, delivered between 1981 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 189.0 m overall, Xiang Hua is 1.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9237199 this registry holds 77 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.