Al Wajbah

At 111,161 gross tons, Al Wajbah is the 2,626th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 270 lng carriers held here, it ranks 91st by tonnage — larger than 64% of that group. Their median tonnage is 105,826 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 128,416 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Marshall Islands (37 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Samsung Heavy Industries, with 39 hulls on record.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Al Wajbah is the 90th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 18 lng carriers flying the Japan flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.

Al Wajbah was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 12th 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 170 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, with a median tonnage of 52,863 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 297.0 m overall, Al Wajbah is 9.0 m longer than the 288.0 m median for lng carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9085625 this registry holds 61 other vessels. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.