Africa

At 79,516 gross tons, Africa is the 5,901st 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 551st by tonnage — larger than 81% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.

Sierra Leone is the country of registry for 531 vessels in this directory, of which Africa is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (251 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sierra Leone.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 51 oil tankers flying the Sierra Leone flag, of which none is larger than Africa.

Africa was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 42nd largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 36 vessels to Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini, with a median tonnage of 39,385 GT, delivered between 1972 and 2007. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 275.0 m overall, Africa is 96.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9030929 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.