Wl Palekh

At 24,199 gross tons, Wl Palekh is the 23,502nd 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 4.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,371st by tonnage — larger than 33% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Wl Palekh is the 1,187th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 327 bulk carriers flying the Malta flag, of which 183 are larger by tonnage.

Wl Palekh was built in 2014, making it 12 years old. It is one of 1,868 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 21,828 GT; within it this ship is the 816th 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 119 vessels to Qingshan Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 12,798 GT, delivered between 1996 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 180.0 m overall, Wl Palekh is 10.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9674397 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 2012 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.