Bulk carrier
«Hanjin Melbourne»
Largest in this registry
#3,907
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest bulk carrier
#292
of 6,489 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 8517982
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- —
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
- Name recorded in
- nb
In context
How «Hanjin Melbourne» compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 93,643 gross tons, «Hanjin Melbourne» is the 3,907th 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 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 292nd by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.
«Hanjin Melbourne» was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 8th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,092 vessels to HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 65,131 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 291.0 m overall, «Hanjin Melbourne» is 101.0 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 8517982 this registry holds 17 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1985 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.
Its IMO number, 8517982, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- 2015ship breaking
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
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Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
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