Aetos Z

At 1,178 gross tons, Aetos Z is the 64,313th 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 5.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 197th by tonnage — larger than 84% of that group. Their median tonnage is 393 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 1,733 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (239 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, with 62 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Aetos Z is the 8,714th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 47 tugs flying the Panama flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Aetos Z was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 631st largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 57 vessels to Yaroslavl Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 770 GT, delivered between 1967 and 1993. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 58.0 m overall, Aetos Z is 25.7 m longer than the 32.3 m median for tugs on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8728191 this registry holds 40 other vessels, whose median build year is 1986 and which range from 1963 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.