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The IMO number of the International Maritime Organization is a generic term covering two distinct meanings. The IMO ship identification number is a unique ship identifier; the IMO company and registered owner identification number is used to identify uniquely each company and/or registered owner managing ships of at least 100 gross tons (gt).
The current Meteor is the third German research vessel in a row sharing the same name, after Meteor and RV Meteor (1964). Until 2012, Meteor was operated by Bremerhaven based company F. Laeisz GmbH. Since January 2013 the ship has a new operator, Briese Schiffahrt in Leer. [4]
By 22 December, when the ship was in international waters between Spain and Algeria, satellite tracking showed that her speed suddenly dropped to 1 knot (2 km/h). [11] According to TASS, there was an explosion in her engine room, [6] reported to happen on 12:30 on 23 December, [14] she was drifting south at 1 knot. [11]
SSCV Thialf is a huge semi-submersible crane vessel operated by the Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors; it was the largest crane vessel in the world until the SSCV Sleipnir became the largest in 2019.
Mærsk Boston was the first of a series of seven fast container ships built by Volkswerft in Germany for Maersk.Launched in 2006, MV Boston is registered in København.A downturn in the world economy means that the B-class vessels have never operated their intended route.
Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than ...
RV Petrel, or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789), [2] [3] is a 76.45 m (250.8 ft) research vessel sailing under the UK flag and owned by the United States Navy and once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The ship is named after the petrel, a sea bird.
MV Rubymar was a Belize-flagged Handymax-size bulk carrier cargo ship completed in 1997. She previously sailed under the names Ken Shin from 1997, Chatham Island from 2009, and Ikaria Island from 2020, before being renamed Rubymar.