Largest in this registry
#539
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#240
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 9534793
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- 9KCQ
- Flag state
- Kuwait
- Port of registry
- Kuwait City
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Unclassified
In context
How Al Salmi compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 162,625 gross tons, Al Salmi is the 539th 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 27 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 240th by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.
Kuwait is the country of registry for 86 vessels in this directory, of which Al Salmi is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (62 ships), and the median vessel measures 5,487 GT. Browse every ship flagged Kuwait.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 62 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Kuwait flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
Al Salmi was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 22nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1,090 vessels to Hanwha Ocean, with a median tonnage of 84,214 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 332.0 m overall, Al Salmi is 217.0 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 9534793 this registry holds . That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Hanwha Ocean
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
