Zhong Teng Hai

At 91,205 gross tons, Zhong Teng Hai is the 4,508th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 485th by tonnage — larger than 93% 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.

People's Republic of China is the country of registry for 3,427 vessels in this directory, of which Zhong Teng Hai is the 36th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,851 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,532 GT. Browse every ship flagged People's Republic of China.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 671 bulk carriers flying the People's Republic of China flag, of which none is larger than Zhong Teng Hai.

Zhong Teng Hai was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 195th 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.

At 292.0 m overall, Zhong Teng Hai is 102.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9558074 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 2011 and which range from 2009 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.

Its IMO number, 9558074, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 164 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.