Yuan Chun Hu

At 162,542 gross tons, Yuan Chun Hu is the 546th 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 27 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 47th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Yuan Chun Hu is the 3rd 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 164 oil tankers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which none is larger than Yuan Chun Hu.

Yuan Chun Hu was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 37th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 333.0 m overall, Yuan Chun Hu is 154.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9681209 this registry holds 58 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9681209, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.