Yuan Zhuo Hai

At 201,989 gross tons, Yuan Zhuo Hai is the 156th 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 34 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 2nd by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Yuan Zhuo Hai is the 12th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 221 bulk carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which none is larger than Yuan Zhuo Hai.

Yuan Zhuo Hai 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 3rd 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 359.0 m overall, Yuan Zhuo Hai is 169.0 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 9532599 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2008 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2014.

Its IMO number, 9532599, 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.