At 3,579 gross tons, Ro West is the 49,485th 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 1.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 2,411 fishing vessels held here, it ranks 168th by tonnage — larger than 93% of that group. Their median tonnage is 738 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 2,773 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Russia (797 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Kuznia na Rybalskomu, with 175 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Ro West is the 1,182nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 180 fishing vessels flying the Norway flag, of which 18 are larger by tonnage.
Ro West was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 1,152nd 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 27 vessels to Larsnes Mekaniske Verkstad, with a median tonnage of 932 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 82.1 m overall, Ro West is 28.1 m longer than the 54.0 m median for fishing vessels on record and a draft of 6.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9794977 this registry holds 31 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2016 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.
Its IMO number, 9794977, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 9×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 7×2 = 207 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
