She has now appeared on the Chittagong website as due to arrive for demolition as Y 6 under IMO 8200527

Ultimately, IHS Markit (ex LR Fairplay) who are responsible for issuing the numbers on behalf of the IMO. The error will have come from a request, misrepresenting the vessel in question (from the owner, shipyard or another party). The misrepresentation would come to light, when the vessel is "spotted" in service, and the likes of "us" recognise it to be a rebuild, and not a newbuild. Unfortunately, by this time, the new number will be on flag registers, class registers etc.

Sadly, misrepresentation (or to go as far as to say fraud) happens in all walks of life, shipping just being one of them.

Yes Krispen, there is a lot of erroneous elements about this ship. The issuing of a new "unique" IMO number is one of those things. Who is responsible for that?

Pieter - I would put those movements down to erroneous reports. The ship did not appear on databases with this IMO number until August 2020.

Ok, let's keep it this way. I see by the way that according to ship movements shown here, she was already in 2017 at Ponta da Madeira. What name would she have been carrying at that time?

For the purposes of this site, should stick with the number she is trading with at the time of the photo (as shown by flag authorities, Equasis/other sources).

Many examples of this (as we all know), and once new number is issued, it is very difficult for the authorities to roll back to the original.

OK, Krispen, so what would now be the best way to go. Renumber her here to 8200527 and add the correct history or leave the scam in place?

Yes, completely agree Pieter.

I mistyped earlier, should have said the movements under the new number appeared from 8/2020 (not 8/2000).

Krispen

Krispen, it looks quite easy to switch the name ACE 5 to CNA5, where the C and the 5 remain in the same position. There are several shots of her on Marine Traffic, but all taken after 07/2020, so her life as ACE 5 may have been very short. The mystery of Rong Xing and the different IMO number remains but has probably been created to keep having access to certain ports.

Pieter, you could be right with 8200527, now I have looked a little bit more. She was reported renamed ACE 5 in 7/2020; though her last movements I can see were recorded in May 2019 (at Zhoushan).

CNA 5 (as Rong Xing) mysteriously appeared in 8/2000.

Krispen

Hi Manfred, the most recent one you linked seems to be the most likely candidate. She was reportedly sold for scrap in China in 2019, but who knows.

Good effort to discoverer this class, which if I am not mistaken consisted of four ships, built by Sanoyas.
1. Golden Falcon, 1983, #1051, broken up as Ocean Angel in China in 2012 (8117134)
2. Golden Condor, 1983, #1052, broken up 2012 as Titan at Alang (8117146)
3. Golden Mizushima, 1984, #1053, broken up in 2013 as May Jasmine, at Chittagong (8117122)
4. Nikolas, 1986, #1054, reportedly broken up in 2019 in China as Fuxing 19 (8200527)

Other ships built by Sanoyas during that period, including the gearless Clipper and Cavalier, have a different superstructure.

So my guess now would be that Fuxing 19, found another trading buyer, who had the IMO number altered to avoid question about his ship having scrapped already.....

From what I can see from this class:
8117122 - broken up Chittagong, 2013.
8117146 - broken up India, 2012.
8200527 - reported still in service as ACE 5.
8117134 - broken up China, 2012.

Most likely to be 8117134 (which Manfred linked to below).
Krispen

More of this type:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2366699

@pieter melissen:
you are not so wrong that she looks much older than built in 2000. She lost her cranes like lys said and is one of this type built in 1983:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1483711
Rgds, Manfred

I am just wondering whether she is not a former Japanese (built) bulkcarrier from the late sixties or early seventies (latest) that was sold for scrap to China and then got a "refreshment course" and re-emerged as a newbuilding without a number. The current is one of those "spare" given to ships that appear in international trade much later in their lives.

On Marinetraffic you can find a few pic's She never had cranes, there are some vent ducts sticking out a bit over the hatch covers. As to the funnel I can imagine painted at cold weather and later the paint was peeling of

I suppose cargo cranes were available originally and they have been removed because it is possible to see crane pedestals( sorry if it is other name of these ones)between cargo holds.

CNA 5 - IMO n°: 8349012
Flag: Panama
Call Sign: 3EMW3
MMSI: 371905000
Gross tonnage: 24999
DWT: 42551
Type: Bulkcarrier
Year of build: Rong Xing: 01/08/2000 CNA 5: 01/08/2020

Interesting, obscure vessel, not in Miramar !
Painting work on the funnel is a complete chaos !.

Built 2000 in China as RONG XING, DWT 42551