Asia Star

At 12,929 gross tons, Asia Star is the 32,530th 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 2.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 904th by tonnage — larger than 60% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Singapore is the country of registry for 2,873 vessels in this directory, of which Asia Star is the 1,667th 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 101 tankers flying the Singapore flag, of which 47 are larger by tonnage.

Asia Star 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 456th 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 256 vessels to HJ Shipbuilding & Construction, with a median tonnage of 50,243 GT, delivered between 1974 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 157.0 m overall, Asia Star is 18.0 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8007987 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.