Nordtulip

At 57,081 gross tons, Nordtulip is the 8,636th 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 9.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 836th by tonnage — larger than 72% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which Nordtulip is the 34th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 oil tankers flying the Portugal flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.

Nordtulip was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 312th 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.

At 228.0 m overall, Nordtulip is 49.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9521447 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2003 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.

Its IMO number, 9521447, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 = 127 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.