Vale Sohar

At 201,384 gross tons, Vale Sohar is the 163rd 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 34 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 53rd by tonnage — larger than 100% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which Vale Sohar is the 7th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,407 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

Vale Sohar was built in 2012, making it 14 years old. It is one of 2,747 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 3rd 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 41 vessels to Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 83,747 GT, delivered between 2008 and 2017. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 360.0 m overall, Vale Sohar is 245.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9565065 this registry holds 39 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2009 to 2014. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2012.

Its IMO number, 9565065, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 6×5 + 5×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 155 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.