Asia 8

At 40,504 gross tons, Asia 8 is the 13,479th 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 6.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 1,887th by tonnage — larger than 71% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Asia 8 is the 2,127th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,548 bulk carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 412 are larger by tonnage.

Asia 8 was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 70th 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 1,480 vessels to HD Hyundai Mipo, with a median tonnage of 29,375 GT, delivered between 1979 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 234.0 m overall, Asia 8 is 44.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8015673 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.