Zhen Hua 26

At 38,255 gross tons, Zhen Hua 26 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 26 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 26.

Zhen Hua 26 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 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 233.6 m overall, Zhen Hua 26 is 153.1 m longer than the 80.5 m median for heavy lifts on record and a draft of 7.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8700254 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1986 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1988.

Its IMO number, 8700254, 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 + 5×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.