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Largest in this registry
#14,691
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest heavy lift
#13
of 223 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 38,255 gross tons, Zhen Hua 25 is the 14,691st 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 6.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 13th by tonnage — larger than 94% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,670 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 24,484 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (41 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Pella Sietas, with 8 hulls on record.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Zhen Hua 25 is the 993rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 heavy lifts flying the Hong Kong flag, of which none is larger than Zhen Hua 25.
Zhen Hua 25 was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 57th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 233.0 m overall, Zhen Hua 25 is 152.5 m longer than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8700242 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 8700242, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 112 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among heavy lifts
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure | 1990 | 42,515 |
| Zhen Hua 36 | 2003 | 39,625 |
| Zhen Hua 16 | 1982 | 38,519 |
| Zhen Hua 25 (this ship) | 1988 | 38,255 |
| Black Marlin | 1999 | 37,938 |
| Red Zed II | 2015 | 37,850 |
| Zhen Hua 31 | 1998 | 37,554 |
Zhen Hua 27
1989 · 38,255 GT · Hong Kong