Nan Hai Fen Jin

At 88,406 gross tons, Nan Hai Fen Jin is the 4,912th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 87th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Nan Hai Fen Jin is the 47th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 80 tankers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Nan Hai Fen Jin was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 69th 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.

At 262.0 m overall, Nan Hai Fen Jin is 123.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8765228 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 1972 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 8765228, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.