Excel

At 91,373 gross tons, Excel is the 4,464th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 473rd by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Excel is the 277th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 221 bulk carriers flying the Singapore flag, of which 22 are larger by tonnage.

Excel 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 276th 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 292.0 m overall, Excel is 102.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9630793 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2011 to 2016. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9630793, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.