Yu Jin

At 4,727 gross tons, Yu Jin is the 45,331st 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 1.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 25,902nd by tonnage — larger than 48% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

South Korea is the country of registry for 1,392 vessels in this directory, of which Yu Jin is the 486th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (722 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,716 GT. Browse every ship flagged South Korea.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 722 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the South Korea flag, of which 204 are larger by tonnage.

Yu Jin was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 1,486th 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 99.9 m overall, Yu Jin is 15.1 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9317236 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2004 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, , 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.