Zhe Wu 188

At 29,236 gross tons, Zhe Wu 188 is the 20,462nd 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 4.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 3,723rd by tonnage — larger than 43% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Zhe Wu 188 is the 868th 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 671 bulk carriers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 415 are larger by tonnage.

Zhe Wu 188 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 750th 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 189.0 m overall, Zhe Wu 188 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 9669720 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 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, 9669720, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 190 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.