Xing Da

At 20,353 gross tons, Xing Da is the 26,472nd 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,021st by tonnage — larger than 23% 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.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the country of registry for 561 vessels in this directory, of which Xing Da is the 46th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,406 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Xing Da was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 179th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 194.0 m overall, Xing Da is 4.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7046027 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1963 to 1976. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, 7046027, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 97 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.