Apex

At 52,902 gross tons, Apex is the 9,271st 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 8.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 964th by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Apex is the 502nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,799 ships), and the median vessel measures 20,927 GT. Browse every ship flagged Singapore.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 152 oil tankers flying the Singapore flag, of which 38 are larger by tonnage.

Apex was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 44th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 240 vessels to IHI Marine United, with a median tonnage of 52,902 GT, delivered between 1963 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 233.0 m overall, Apex is 54.0 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 8715479 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1987 to 1993. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.