Aal Kobe

At 23,930 gross tons, Aal Kobe is the 23,775th 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 4.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 17th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Aal Kobe is the 3,007th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 18 multi-purposes flying the Liberia flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Aal Kobe was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 1,301st largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 193.8 m overall, Aal Kobe is 103.8 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 28.2 m and a draft of 11.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9498444 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9498444, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 184 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.