K. Premium Ore

At 173,756 gross tons, K. Premium Ore is the 307th 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 29 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 96th by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which K. Premium Ore is the 46th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5,698 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Panama flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.

K. Premium Ore was built in 2020, making it 6 years old. It is one of 984 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 32,720 GT; within it this ship is the 23rd largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 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 340.0 m overall, K. Premium Ore is 225.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9850123 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2019 and which range from 2017 to 2023. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2020.

Its IMO number, 9850123, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 5×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 2×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.