At 198,980 gross tons, MS Vale Brasil is the 192nd 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 33 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 18th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.
Hong Kong is the country of registry for 2,385 vessels in this directory, of which MS Vale Brasil is the 44th 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 483 bulk carriers flying the Hong Kong flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
MS Vale Brasil was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 5th 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.
The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 362.0 m overall, MS Vale Brasil is 172.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 65.0 m and a draft of 23.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9488918 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9488918, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 188 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
