Huanghai Developer

At 20,682 gross tons, Huanghai Developer is the 26,244th 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 3.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 34th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.

Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which Huanghai Developer is the 1,705th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,478 ships), and the median vessel measures 33,042 GT. Browse every ship flagged Hong Kong.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 8 multi-purposes flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Huanghai Developer was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 1,099th 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 166.3 m overall, Huanghai Developer is 76.3 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 27.4 m and a draft of 10.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9458444 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2007 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9458444, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 5×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.