Laiwu Steel Harmonious

At 152,229 gross tons, Laiwu Steel Harmonious is the 1,358th 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 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 59th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Laiwu Steel Harmonious is the 180th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 669 bulk carriers flying the Liberia flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Laiwu Steel Harmonious was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 3rd 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 240 vessels to IHI Marine United, with a median tonnage of 52,902 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 337.0 m overall, Laiwu Steel Harmonious is 147.0 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 8808068 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1987 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8808068, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 148 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.