Hokko Maru

At 902 gross tons, Hokko Maru is the 67,028th 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 6.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 806th by tonnage — larger than 65% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Hokko Maru is the 1,248th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 61 fishing vessels flying the Japan flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Hokko Maru was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 1,262nd 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 88 vessels to Niigata Shipbuilding & Repair, with a median tonnage of 674 GT, delivered between 1971 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 64.0 m overall, Hokko Maru is 10.0 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9291511 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.