Vechtborg

At 6,130 gross tons, Vechtborg is the 41,731st largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 257th by tonnage — larger than 73% 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.

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which Vechtborg is the 329th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 170 multi-purposes flying the Netherlands flag, of which 47 are larger by tonnage.

Vechtborg was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 711th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 78 vessels to Volharding Shipyards, with a median tonnage of 6,130 GT, delivered between 1939 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 132.2 m overall, Vechtborg is 42.2 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9160334 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.

Its IMO number, 9160334, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 0×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.