Achilles

At 40,119 gross tons, Achilles is the 13,717th 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 6.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,944th by tonnage — larger than 70% 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.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Achilles is the 207th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 39 bulk carriers flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 26 are larger by tonnage.

Achilles was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 336th 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.

The registry attributes 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 225.0 m overall, Achilles is 35.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 14.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9276171 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.