Zhen Hua 30

At 147,490 gross tons, Zhen Hua 30 is the 1,543rd 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 255 heavy lifts held here, it ranks 2nd by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Zhen Hua 30 is the 21st 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 10 heavy lifts flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which none is larger than Zhen Hua 30.

Zhen Hua 30 was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 24th 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 297.0 m overall, Zhen Hua 30 is 216.5 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 9107021 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.

Its IMO number, 9107021, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 101 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.