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Largest in this registry
#47,985
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest tug
#27
of 1,263 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
In context
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 3,969 gross tons, Alex Chouest is the 47,985th 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 1.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,471 tugs held here, it ranks 27th by tonnage — larger than 98% 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.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Alex Chouest is the 477th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 239 tugs flying the United States flag, of which 5 are larger by tonnage.
Alex Chouest was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 772nd 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 95 vessels to North American Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 2,912 GT, delivered between 1978 and 2018. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 84.1 m overall, Alex Chouest is 51.8 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 9132337 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
Same yard, same years
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
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.
Measurements
Its IMO number, 9132337, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 107 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among tugs
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| John P LaBorde | 2004 | 4,544 |
| «Normand Master» | 2003 | 4,462 |
| Bourbon Orca | 2006 | 4,311 |
| Alex Chouest (this ship) | 1999 | 3,969 |
| IMO 9769659 | 2018 | 3,903 |
| Jean Goodwill | 2000 | 3,849 |
| ALP Guard | 2009 | 3,732 |