Al Huwaila

At 135,848 gross tons, Al Huwaila is the 1,861st 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 23 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 920th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Al Huwaila is the 107th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 940 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 47 are larger by tonnage.

Al Huwaila was built in 2007, making it 19 years old. It is one of 2,469 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,473 GT; within it this ship is the 35th 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 826 vessels to Samsung Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 75,201 GT, delivered between 1980 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 315.0 m overall, Al Huwaila is 200.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9360879 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 to 2012. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2007.

Its IMO number, 9360879, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 6×5 + 0×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 149 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.