Fernando

At 23,132 gross tons, Fernando is the 24,606th 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 3.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 20th 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.

Fernando was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 544th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 274 vessels to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company, with a median tonnage of 41,482 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 192.9 m overall, Fernando is 102.9 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 27.8 m and a draft of 11.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9235359 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9235359, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 5×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 129 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.