Zhen He

At 49,375 gross tons, Zhen He is the 10,071st 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 8.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 1,403rd by tonnage — larger than 62% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Zhen He is the 134th 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 129 container ships flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 31 are larger by tonnage.

Zhen He was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 103rd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 274.0 m overall, Zhen He is 52.4 m longer than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9043627 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993 and which range from 1991 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 9043627, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.