Zim California

At 25,831 gross tons, Zim California is the 22,434th 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 4.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 12,552nd by tonnage — larger than 75% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Israel is the country of registry for 25 vessels in this directory, of which Zim California is the 6th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (16 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,194 GT. Browse every ship flagged Israel.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 16 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Israel flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Zim California was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 148th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 208.0 m overall, Zim California is 93.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7043556 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1969 to 1976. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.

Its IMO number, , carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.