Talnakh

At 16,994 gross tons, Talnakh is the 29,062nd 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 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 48th by tonnage — larger than 95% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Talnakh was built in 2008, making it 18 years old. It is one of 2,764 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,971 GT; within it this ship is the 1,065th 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 229 vessels to Meyer Wismar, with a median tonnage of 16,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 169.0 m overall, Talnakh is 79.0 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 26.4 m and a draft of 10.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9404039 this registry holds 82 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2006 to 2010. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2008.

Its IMO number, 9404039, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.