Zouzou

At 28,455 gross tons, Zouzou is the 20,947th 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 4.7 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 11,832nd by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.

Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Zouzou is the 412th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 915 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Cyprus flag, of which 264 are larger by tonnage.

Zouzou was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 203rd 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 205.0 m overall, Zouzou is 90.0 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 7305497 this registry holds 72 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1958 to 1981. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.

Its IMO number, 7305497, 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.