Ruby Star

At 43,753 gross tons, Ruby Star is the 11,751st 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 7.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,473rd by tonnage — larger than 77% 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.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Ruby Star is the 566th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 148 bulk carriers flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 33 are larger by tonnage.

Ruby Star 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 756th 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 229.0 m overall, Ruby Star is 39.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9523512 this registry holds 54 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, 9523512, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.