At 17,357 gross tons, Sandnes is the 28,622nd 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 2.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 5,392nd by tonnage — larger than 17% 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.
Antigua and Barbuda is the country of registry for 734 vessels in this directory, of which Sandnes is the 57th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (372 ships), and the median vessel measures 6,351 GT. Browse every ship flagged Antigua and Barbuda.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 20 bulk carriers flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, of which 8 are larger by tonnage.
Sandnes was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 773rd 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.
The registry attributes 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 166.7 m overall, Sandnes is 23.3 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 24.5 m and a draft of 10.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9306029 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2005 and which range from 2003 to 2009. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9306029, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
