Nikolas

At 25,294 gross tons, Nikolas is the 22,910th 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 4.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 2,199th by tonnage — larger than 41% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Nikolas is the 3,778th 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 429 container ships flying the Panama flag, of which 245 are larger by tonnage.

Nikolas was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 400th 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 207.0 m overall, Nikolas is 14.6 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9203526 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1994 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.

Its IMO number, 9203526, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 106 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.